Same Kind of Different as Me

00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:02,165 we was real proud of what we caught. 513 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:07,334 We'd take it back home, show it off... 514 00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:10,378 and share it with all the folk. 515 00:41:13,346 --> 00:41:18,057 See, it bothers me that white folk go through all of that trouble... 516 00:41:19,227 --> 00:41:23,392 and when they finally got something on the line, they throw it back. 517 00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:27,357 So... 518 00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:30,857 It occurred to me that if you is a white man 519 00:41:30,947 --> 00:41:32,779 that is fishing for a friend... 520 00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:36,568 and you're just gonna catch and release... 521 00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:44,416 then I got no desire to be your friend. 522 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:51,548 You understand me? 523 00:41:55,471 --> 00:41:57,758 - You hear me? - Yeah. 524 00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,096 Yeah. 525 00:42:05,815 --> 00:42:06,771 Where you from? 526 00:42:10,153 --> 00:42:11,143 Louisiana. 527 00:42:16,617 --> 00:42:17,528 Got any family? 528 00:42:28,004 --> 00:42:29,791 Never knowed my mama. 529 00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:34,337 I hear she was too young to care for me. 530 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:37,461 So I was raised by my grandma. 531 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:44,176 We called her Big Mama. 532 00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:50,607 <i>She was big sideways, north or south,</i> 533 00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:52,984 <i>all the way around.</i> 534 00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:55,650 <i>She was my best friend.</i> 535 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:58,983 [Big Mama] Denver. Denver! 536 00:42:59,619 --> 00:43:01,076 She had a lot of pain. 537 00:43:02,413 --> 00:43:05,656 I used to take care of her. Her and my cousin Chook. 538 00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:09,243 Oh, Denver! I needs to get easy. 539 00:43:09,337 --> 00:43:10,498 [moaning] 540 00:43:18,805 --> 00:43:21,343 I don't quite know what kind of pill they was... 541 00:43:22,642 --> 00:43:24,258 <i>but she called them red devils.</i> 542 00:43:29,148 --> 00:43:30,138 [Big Mama] Denver. 543 00:43:31,317 --> 00:43:33,149 I needs to get easy. 544 00:43:33,236 --> 00:43:35,353 <i>[Denver] She was actually my daddy's mama.</i> 545 00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:38,739 <i>But I hardly ever saw him and never called him Daddy.</i> 546 00:43:51,212 --> 00:43:53,704 <i>I used to like it when Big Mama was sleeping.</i> 547 00:43:54,674 --> 00:43:56,506 <i>'Cause that's when she had no pain.</i> 548 00:44:00,930 --> 00:44:03,013 Had a window by my bed. 549 00:44:04,892 --> 00:44:07,555 <i>I'd look up at the stars winking at me.</i> 550 00:44:08,688 --> 00:44:11,146 <i>Weren't no electric lights blotting out the sky,</i> 551 00:44:11,232 --> 00:44:13,724 <i>except for the moon cutting a hole in the dark.</i> 552 00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:21,068 The nights was just as black as molasses. 553 00:44:22,034 --> 00:44:25,948 And the stars glittered like broken glass in the sun. 554 00:44:31,711 --> 00:44:33,168 [flames crackling] 555 00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:36,873 [indistinct] Big Mama. 556 00:44:41,470 --> 00:44:43,257 Big Mama! 557 00:44:43,347 --> 00:44:44,758 [echoes, fades] 558 00:45:16,881 --> 00:45:18,463 <i>After Big Mama die,</i> 559 00:45:19,884 --> 00:45:23,093 my Uncle James came by and picked me and Chook up. 560 00:45:24,096 --> 00:45:26,429 <i>I went to live on his man's plantation</i> 561 00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:27,926 <i>to do a little sharecropping.</i> 562 00:45:28,893 --> 00:45:30,680 - [clapping] - [people chattering, shouting] 563 00:45:30,770 --> 00:45:34,389 <i>[chorus singing gospel song] ♪ Beulah Land, Beulah Land ♪</i> 564 00:45:34,482 --> 00:45:36,769 <i>Now, all that work</i> 565 00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:39,852 <i>didn't stop Uncle James and those working in the fields</i> 566 00:45:39,946 --> 00:45:42,359 <i>from going to church every Sunday.</i> 567 00:45:42,865 --> 00:45:46,199 <i>And of course, putting on their Sunday best.</i> 568 00:45:46,786 --> 00:45:49,278 <i>[man] ♪ My God's talking to me ♪ [continues, indistinct]</i> 569 00:45:50,248 --> 00:45:53,332 <i>[Denver] Uncle James, he was a good man.</i> 570 00:45:54,126 --> 00:45:55,833 <i>He was a praying man</i> 571 00:45:56,337 --> 00:45:59,205 <i>and got worried that all the bad stuff circling me</i> 572 00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:01,039 <i>might be from black magic.</i> 573 00:46:01,342 --> 00:46:02,458 Come on, little brother. 574 00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:05,635 <i>So he took me down the river to get baptized.</i> 575 00:46:05,846 --> 00:46:08,088 It was a dunking I'll never forget. 576 00:46:09,934 --> 00:46:12,142 <i>Kinda felt strange going into that water</i> 577 00:46:12,228 --> 00:46:14,140 <i>in a full set of clothes.</i> 578 00:46:14,689 --> 00:46:17,397 <i>The river mud squished between my toes</i> 579 00:46:17,483