Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

The welfare done called here saying they gonna remove you from my budget 484 00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:01,296 'cause you ain't been attending school regularly. 485 00:39:01,380 --> 00:39:03,089 l told you I got kicked out. 486 00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:05,216 l been home nearly every day for two weeks now. 487 00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:08,678 You ain't told me nothing about no damn school today. 488 00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:11,765 l told you I was going to school this morning. 489 00:39:13,434 --> 00:39:16,644 You plan on putting some food in that frying pan? 490 00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:24,486 Precious, you got something you wanna say? 491 00:39:24,570 --> 00:39:26,696 -No. -Then don't be slamming shit down in here. 492 00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:28,365 You understand? 493 00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:30,742 Yes, ma'am. 494 00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:35,872 You need to forget about that school shit and take your ass down to the welfare. 495 00:39:35,956 --> 00:39:37,791 l'm getting a stipend from school. 496 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,085 Fool, what the fuck is a stipend? What is that? 497 00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:43,755 Fuck a stipend. l said take your ass down to the welfare. 498 00:39:43,839 --> 00:39:44,964 Right now? 499 00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:48,718 Why in the fuck would you go right now? lt's at nighttime. Shit is closed. 500 00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:50,053 You gotta be there by 7:00 a.m. 501 00:39:50,137 --> 00:39:52,722 in the morning if you wanna talk to somebody. 502 00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:54,432 Fucking stupid. 503 00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:01,773 You think you're too good now? ls that what it is? 504 00:40:02,566 --> 00:40:05,485 You think you is too good for the welfare? 505 00:40:08,739 --> 00:40:13,118 There's more white folk getting assistance than it is niggers, Ms. Onassis. 506 00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:16,538 I think I said therapy... 507 00:40:16,622 --> 00:40:20,375 Hurry your ass up. l am in here fucking starving. 508 00:40:21,127 --> 00:40:22,752 Now what you gonna do if I die of starvation? 509 00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:25,004 Where you gonna go after that? 510 00:40:26,173 --> 00:40:28,133 l forgot. School. 511 00:40:29,593 --> 00:40:32,429 Each... What that bitch say? Each one do what? 512 00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:34,597 Each one teach one? 513 00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:36,141 Well, they don't know who the fuck they teaching, 514 00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,393 'cause you can't learn shit. 515 00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:41,813 Keep on listening to them white people. 516 00:40:41,897 --> 00:40:44,566 That's what's gonna get you fucked up. 517 00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:49,404 Precious, l'm hungry. 518 00:41:15,389 --> 00:41:19,225 You ain't cooked no collard greens with the fucking pigs' feet? 519 00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:22,729 Like, how am I supposed to eat pigs' feet with no collard greens? 520 00:41:22,813 --> 00:41:26,649 And why in the fuck does that pigs' feet have so much hair in it? 521 00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:30,028 You eat it. You come eat this shit. 522 00:41:30,112 --> 00:41:32,405 -l'm not hungry, though. -Yes, you is. 523 00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,658 Precious, if you don't get this goddamn plate... 524 00:41:41,081 --> 00:41:45,585 You just fix mine when you get done. Since you fucked it up, you gonna eat it up. 525 00:41:46,086 --> 00:41:49,005 Hurry up and eat, Precious. l'm fucking hungry, too. 526 00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:55,470 And don't let it get cold, 'cause cold-ass pigs' feet is nasty as shit. 527 00:44:04,141 --> 00:44:07,352 So, tell me about... Tell me about your home life. 528 00:44:10,397 --> 00:44:12,899 Ain't nothing to really talk about. 529 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,902 You're in a safe place. Just talk. 530 00:44:16,236 --> 00:44:17,236 What's going on? 531 00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:18,655 What's the first thing that comes to your mind 532 00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:20,865 when you think about home? 533 00:44:20,949 --> 00:44:24,661 l just wish I had my own TV, so I could watch it in my room. 534 00:44:25,412 --> 00:44:28,956 lf I had my own TV, l wouldn't have to watch it with my mother. 535 00:44:29,041 --> 00:44:31,834 And what's it like, watching TV with your mother? 536 00:44:31,919 --> 00:44:34,671 You enjoy watching TV with your mother? 537 00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:39,759 l need to know about your home life. l need to know what it's like where you live. 538 00:44:40,761 --> 00:44:42,887 My mother's like a whale on the couch. 539 00:44:42,971 --> 00:44:46,974 She say I eat all the time, but she always making me eat. 540 00:44:47,059 --> 00:44:49,268 Then she call me a fat mess. 541 00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:52,480 She say the apartment is little 'cause of me. 542 00:44:52,564 --> 00:44:55,358 Only time she ever leaves is to play her numbers. 543 00:44:55,442 --> 00:44:58,361 l feel like I could just sit in the house with her every day, 544 00:44:58,445 --> 00:44:59,862 the shades drawn, 545 00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:04,158 watch TV, eat, watch TV, eat again. 546 00:45:05,035 --