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And I wouldn't tell them.

I didn't want nobody to know

I was weak, that weak, behind a woman.

I loved her, man. I ain't lying.

I loved her.

Did she hurt you bad, man?

She tore me up.

She turned me against

the whole female sex...

as far as life is concerned for me.

Can't nobody give a sister

the blues like her man.

That's the blues.

That's the sure-enough blues, really.

You ever had a woman that you loved,

or a girlfriend or something...

that you really felt like

you couldn't make it without?

And along come one of them old hip dudes

and slid her right out from under you?

If you didn't have the blues then...

you're right,

you don't know nothing about it.

A lot of people talk about Jody.

You know who Jody's supposed to be.

Jody is that fella...

that when you leave home...

at 6:
00...

he's in your house at 6:01.

I want everybody to get in on this thing,

- You all feel it over there?

- Yeah,

You all feel it over here?

I'm gonna tell you all

a story about Jody, right,

Just wait a minute,

Honey, do you know Jody?

All the girls that know Jody,

let me see you wave your hand,

Johnnie Taylor,

You ever try to get in after hours?

We had a place called the Blue Note...

with a blue window,

and it had a note painted in the glass.

Right, you could look through.

You remember that? The Blue Note.

You'd be checking,

looking through that peeled paint and sh*t.

They'd be getting down.

You'd try, "Curtis, you going in, brother?

Take me in with you, man."

"Guess...

"F*** you, then. You don't have

to take me no place, n*gger.

"Come on, do something. You bad?

"I'm bullshitting, brother. I'm just

playing. But take me in with you.

"I got a little business. You know I'm

gonna get it on. You know what I mean?"

The dude take you in with him.

You knock on the door like a speakeasy.

You have to knock all night.

Then the dude open it. "What you want?"

"Hank sent me."

"I don't know no goddamn Hank."

Then the n*gger go off, right?

N*gger get mad.

"Say, motherf***er, what you mean

you ain't gonna let me in this funky joint?

"Much money I done spent in here, n*gger.

I knew your mom when she was whoring."

Right, then the dude let him in.

"Come on in, man.

I was going to let you in. Sh*t.

"You don't gotta talk to me like that.

"Sh*t, how old are you, boy?"

You have to lie. I say, "19."

"N*gger, you look 35."

Then you go in the back room.

White cats in Vegas. I was in Las Vegas.

They gamble different, very quiet like.

"$2,000 on the five.

"Oops, I missed. Gosh, gee whiz."

N*ggers be talking about, "Hump, baby.

"Sh*t. Bet I do it over tom-tom.

"Save that n*gger. Sh*t.

"Bar. Bet the bar. Off-time.

"I'm trying to make me some money.

"I'm hungry for hog meat. Slap, Jesus.

"Sh*t. Gotta be a Jesus

'cause too many black folks.

"N*gger, what, boy? I ain't got no money.

"Get up off me, motherf***er.

"Sh*t, I'm trying

to get this six up off my ass.

"If I six, we're going to have a new

crap game. You can believe that. Sh*t!

"Borrow what, man?

I ain't got no money, n*gger.

"I'm going to pay you.

"Goddamn. N*gger won't leave me alone.

Supposed to be my partner.

"Get me a beer or something, boy.

I'm trying to hustle."

You know, the n*gger be,

"Seven! Motherf***er! Goddamn!

"Boy, you check that seven.

The man had his hand on the table.

"He hit the dice. N*gger ain't fade nobody.

"Sh*t. F***ed up my money. Jive turkey.

"Sh*t. Brother, what's happening?

"This n*gger was down, f***ing around.

"Let me have $2. Give me $2.

"Want to buy a radio?

"Dig, mama, it got 16 channels.

"F*** you, too, n*gger."

I love black women. I'm black.

All black women are my sisters, man.

The way the brother walks is beautiful.

The way he talks is beautiful.

The way he abuses me is beautiful.

The brother is beautiful.

The way he makes love to me is beautiful.

You know, that's my man.

She's behind me 100%.

She believes in everything I believe in.

And whatever I do...

she go right along with me

and do it at the same time...

with no doubts in her mind...

because she know that I'm positive,

and that I'm out to get over...

and that I'm going to try

to get a piece of this country.

I have to be the lead horse.

I have to be in charge...

Not in charge, but I got to be

on top of her all the time.

You think you're the boss

between you and your old lady?

I know I'm the boss.

The reason why I know this is because...

Your old lady's so bad,

she actually got you believing that sh*t.

No, the black woman has always been

two steps ahead of her man. Always.

I'd say I prefer an older broad

to a younger broad any day...

because the understanding is here

and not so much here.

A lot of people think with their mouth

and not with their head. Like your mama.

But you're gonna get her physically first.

No, mentally, brother. Go for the head.

The first thing that's gonna attract you

is the physical thing.

Ain't no sense in taking no head

and leaving the rest. Take the whole thing.

When a woman steps out the door,

if you decide you wanna jam her, jam her.

If she can accept it, it's beautiful.

Let me tell you the truth.

I think I've had more women...

than both of you cats

put together a thousand times.

We're not ready for all this bullshit

we getting from the black man.

We not taking it anymore like we used to.

That mean I have sex

with between eight, nine and ten...

between the hour of 7:00 in the morning

and the hour of 12:00.

Now that n*gger's crazy.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to present to you...

the lady that did such a wonderful job

as hostess on the television program...

this morning of the Watts Festival...

Miss Gee Whiz,

Come on, let's meet Miss Carla Thomas,

All right,

I remember the time I was a kid.

My dad would hide

in the back of the house...

when a bill collector

come knocking on the door.

My mom would have to go to the door

and face him.

She'd tell him a lie or curse him, whatever

it took to get him away from the house.

My daddy would hide in the back.

He was afraid.

This went on years past that time.

Black women would always be the man,

so to speak.

When it comes to confrontation

with white people...

the black male was always kind of afraid

to face the man.

And the woman had to face him.

That is the problem that stems between

the black man and the black woman...

today, because she wants to control and

rule and run him, and you can't do that.

He cannot survive and get free...

under the same thing that his mama

and his sister and his wife put on him...

way back there, when she had to do it

to keep him from getting lynched.

Usually a black man

is kept in the background.

Now they're coming up forward

and I love that.

You let me find me a good black man.

I'll be damned if I let him go anywhere.

I always said I'd never fight over a man,

but you let me have a good black man...

the b*tch can't say sh*t to me. She

will get her ass kicked. I don't play it.

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