- My father wants me to be a computer operator.
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- I'm just like thinking god this ozone hole above our heads
is gonna get larger and larger and larger
and there's just gonna be more and more people
and we're gonna suck up more and more resources
and I just kept seeing doom.
- Eric has a serious problem with his image.
He's too concerned with how he looks
and what people thinks about him
and what he says, you know,
when people are listening and watching.
I mean you should be conscious of what you do
and what you say and how you look,
but not the point where it runs your life.
A lot of people tell me you know when I rap
I sound so mad and so angry and so frustrated.
♪ He rape me he rape me she began to shout ♪
♪ I thought this was the (bleep) you only read about ♪
But that's how I feel inside
and that's what comes out
when I get a chance to express myself.
- Why don't you go?
- 'Cause it's for a man, it's a men's shelter.
- Are there women's shelters?
- I don't know.
- You don't care?
- I don't care.
- It's just a lot more real
than when you give somebody change and walk away.
You know it goes a lot farther than that,
and I guess I just got a better understanding
of what you basically already know
that who's to say that I couldn't be Darleen
if I didn't have the family that I have
and the friends that I have to support me.
- You see where that truck is over there?
- Uh huh.
- That's where we go.
- How often does the midnight run come?
- Every Tuesday, sometimes every Tuesday
but they come Fridays and Saturdays.
because we be in there sleeping
and they come wake you up, midnight run,
and then you see everybody coming out their boxes
just running up the block.
Look like there's a raid or something.
- One of the directors and I got kind of close in Jamaica
and we got a little too close.
Unfortunately he can't be with us anymore
because unfortunately he was a little too in to me.
- I know you and I know you.
- Okay, pretend they're not there,
you're not allowed to talk to them.
Bill is the director I have sucked through the fourth wall,
he's now living in our realm.
Now you know what it's like.
He felt very uncomfortable
being on the other side with all the cameras on him
and basically hid most of the time,
which I don't blame him.
- For the largest imaginable march here today.
- Right before we left they had announced
that one million people had showed up,
and it was just packed the whole way
from the Capitol Building to the Washington Monument.
- We will not let
the Supreme Court have the last word
about our lives, our bodies, and our freedom.
- Sitting there listening, being a pro-choice person
actually listening to why you have the right
you know make a decision on your body
it opened my eyes to a lot of different women's issues
and women's topics that I knew that was going on
but I didn't realize that so many people
took this thing so seriously.
I really felt good about it, I really did,
and I'm glad that I went and was a part of it.
- This country is racist as hell,
you know what I'm saying, that's the reality.
And the way I was accused
of one, spitting in someone's face,
and then two, picking up something
that I don't even know what it is,
and threatening to hit somebody with it, you know.
- I don't think that had to do
anything with you being black though.
Do you think that it had to do,
do you really think that is the cause of.
- A lot of it, yes, because you know,
Listen Andre, from my perspective
whenever a black person, including myself,
has an opinion, is assertive about it
or is aggressive about it,
we become threatening to white people.
- There is racism,
but you can't go about it by
you know, by just, like these signs here.
I mean, what,
because it's just, you're telling the wrong people man.
Who here is racist?
What is racism to you?
- It involves control man.
- Okay now what, who here is trying to control you?
- Everybody in this apartment, you know, who is white
has the possibility to becoming racist
if they fall into the traps of this society.
- So are you saying white people
are the only people who can be racist?
- No, to me racism and prejudice are two different things.
Prejudice means to pre-judge,
and a lot of black people are prejudice,
I have my own prejudices.
I'm not even gonna lie,
I came into this situation with prejudices.
Some of them have been proven out,
some of them haven't been,
you know some of them have been discounted,
you know what I mean.
- Listen Norman.
- Norman didn't really come out and say
I'm bisexual, how do you feel about that?
Gather around, we're gonna discuss my sexuality,
you know it wasn't anything like that
it was just kind of, it just sort of surfaced.
And no one's had any reaction to it at all,
it's just great getting to be around him
because Norman expresses it so normally.
Okay tell us a joke.
- It's a long joke, it's a story joke,
I need two volunteers, Becky and Julie.
Eventually with inside myself
I started to locate fears
and try to challenge and confront my fears
and say why am I so afraid of
if I'm attracted to someone of my own sex
why should I be so afraid of it?
This is who I am, and I'm not gonna go away
and I'm very proud to be who I am.
I'm not here to stop anyone else,
I'm here to live and to share myself
and to make this world a better place, I'm here to share.