1:02:00
You know, I ain't got nothing.
1:02:02
I can't even go out there and get a job
making seven dollars an hour.
1:02:10
I'll be sitting there telling myself,
"You ain't gonna get no better. '"
1:02:23
What did y'all tell me about
after y'all go to college and everything...
1:02:27
y'all get your own place?
1:02:29
We can all go to Arby's, baby.!
1:02:32
- And get fresh Matt's Cookies.
- And going toJewel's for our meat.
1:02:36
- That's a lot of food stamps.
- We ain't gonna need no food stamps.
1:02:43
Each day is a struggle.
1:02:46
Trying to deal with the kids'attitudes
as well as my own...
1:02:50
and trying to be strong enough
for them and myself.
1:02:53
- That is so neat.
- I forgot to turn in my work.
1:02:56
That is what you call a neat paper.
Yeah, that's neat.
1:02:59
Don't you say that about my son.
1:03:03
My son got a brain.
Now, you cut that out.
1:03:05
- But he don't use it.
- See that brain there?
1:03:08
Now there are two
new members of the Agee household.
1:03:11
Arthur's sister Tomika
has a baby girl named Jazz.
1:03:17
And Arthur's best friend Shannon moved in
to escape his own troubled home.
1:03:22
Shannon is like me.
1:03:25
he understood me,
and I understood him.
1:03:30
he could sit back and talk to me
'cause I was his best friend.
1:03:33
he trusted me, and I trust him.
1:03:39
It's been crazy, as far as his father
and his mother's breakup.
1:03:43
he'll come home,
and Bo stealing and buying drugs...
1:03:50
and beat on his mother and stuff.
1:03:56
You have to call the police
or get an order of protection...
1:03:59
for him to leave me alone.