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The one thing

I really don't like about black men is:

All the black women that there is...

I don't understand why they would...

prefer white women, or whatever...

when there're lots of black women...

who can do more...

than a white woman.

A white girl that digs black brothers...

that want a black brother...

I done had experience with a few of them.

And they do the n*gger right.

In his soul, in his heart...

in his spirit, in his being...

he does not actually feel

the white woman...

'cause the white woman ain't hip

to mustard greens and cornbread.

You dig what I mean?

The white woman ain't hip

to his little tricks.

A brother can play tricks

on a white woman...

and she can't cope with it.

All she can do is say yes.

But there are certain tricks

that he can't play on a sister.

If you get out there and pick up

a stray broad off the street...

don't think you gonna get a whole lot,

because you ain't.

You're not. That's why I condemn

all black men, black women...

that get out there and get whitey,

'cause it ain't sh*t.

Some n*ggers I know like Chinese women.

Ladies and gentlemen...

let's meet and greet...

Mr, Rufus Thomas!

- Can I ask you something?

- Yeah!

- I said, can I ask you something?

- Yeah!

Ain't I'm clean?

Fellas! Thank you,

- You all ready for it?

- Yeah!

- You all ready for it? Here it is!

- Yeah!

Hey, Mr, Rufus Thomas!

Come on, Rufus, tell them about it,

- Tell them about it!

- Can you hear me out there?

Yeah!

All right, I want everybody...,

Don't want nobody on the field, not yet,

Now when I tell you to get on the field...

then you get on the field,

Then I just might get out

on the field with you,

All right, Here we go,

You all ready?

Okay, here we go,

You all ready?

- You all ready?

- Yeah!

Okay, here we go,

Now, wait a minute,

We all together out here,

We all gonna have some fun,

But you ain't supposed to have your fun

on the ground,

You're supposed to be in the stands,

More power to the folks

that's going to the stands,

And I wish the mike cord

were long enough...

I'd go in the stands with you,

More power to the folks

that's going to the stands,

Ain't no problem at all, fellas,

It ain't what you got, it's what you know

what to do with what you got,

So all of you, will you please...,

All you people right in there...

please go to the stands,

Please, With a capital "P,"

Come on, you all, please go to the stands,

That's right, Might be a little slow,

but you just got to go,

So, how about it, brother?

Power to the people that go to the stands!

Power to the folks! Let's go to the stands,

Power to the people!

Let's go to the stands,

Please go to..., Don't jump the fence

because it don't make sense,

You and that upside-down umbrella,

I'm talking about you, fella,

He don't mean to be mean,

he just want to be seen,

Look, you ain't no Indian, lady, but

you going have to get off the field, too,

Now whatever you do now, please,

Now, will you please hold what you got?

Yeah, that's a brother, all right,

Yeah, that's a brother, all right,

but I'll be damned if he's my brother,

Somebody told him he's cute

and he want to try to show it off out there,

Standing there, looking just like the thing

that eat up my grandpa 's dog,

See, the good part about it...

the very good part about all that,

now he knows he's wrong,

But if you go out there

and try to tell him he's wrong...

then want to try to whoop

everybody, see?

See, he's got his fists up now,

See what I'm talking about?

And that's what you call our black brother,

Now you all get him off,

You all got out there and get him off,

Get him off, you all! Get him on off,

Just take him right on off

and everything will be all right, y'all,

They'd arrest me, especially at night.

They have a curfew, right?

N*ggers have to be home by 11:00,

Negroes, 12:
00.

And you'd be trying to get home.

Doing your cool running sh*t.

Always they'd catch you out

in front of a store or something...

'cause you be taking shortcuts, right?

Cops:
"Put your hands up, black boy!"

You panic. "All right, don't move!"

You be scared to death.

"Put your hands against the wall!"

"There ain't no wall." "Find one.

"Put the handcuffs on him, Fred."

They put the handcuffs on,

and I was really skinny.

They'd slip off

and the dude would get mad.

"All right. Put them on his ankles

or his ass or something."

They handcuffed my thighs, right?

Hopped me to the car.

Then they call my father

about 4:
00 in the morning.

"Mr. Pryor, we have your son

down here at headquarters.

"What about it?" "F*** him."

You know.

And my mother'd have to beg him

to come get me out.

"Please, Bucky, go get him."

"F*** that n*gger."

"I told him to be home at 11:00,

and I meant 11:
00!

"Goddamn, every time I turn around,

that n*gger's in jail.

"I'm tired of getting him out."

I'd be praying he'd have a heart attack

before he'd get there...

'cause he'd put some sh*t on you.

"I'm gonna get your ass out.

'Cause you know I'm gonna tear your...

"How much is it, man?

$12? Yeah, I'll pay it.

"And you know I'll get your ass.

Yeah, you can believe that sh*t."

And my mother be crying:

"It hurts me more than it hurts you."

I'd say, "Yeah, let him beat your ass."

Here he comes,

This is the man

that put romance in your hearts,

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr, Luther Ingram!

I can't believe

you don't mess around, man.

Yeah. Everybody mess around.

Even married men mess around.

What's to keep your old lady

from messing around?

Some of your best relationships

are with married women...

because they aren't able

to take a lot of your time.

I fall in love seven days a week

and love everybody.

What's your old lady's name, man?

That ain't none of your business

what's her name.

What do you mean, "What's her name?"

No, man, you say your old lady's beautiful,

I just want to know who she is.

You might know her already. That's why

I'm not gonna give you her name.

I left my wife all thinking

she was happy and everything.

And look here, there wasn't no boyfriend

involved in this here.

And I come back home.

It was cold. January 27.

- '69.

- That when she put you out?

- She didn't put me out.

- What happened?

She hired her a van line and moved.

I don't mess around

with any of my partners' old ladies...

who are married, you know?

When I go by there,

it's a thing that I respect, man.

But I figure there's enough

women out there...

for a brother who's supposed to be your

partner, you can go out there and catch.

Don't mess with someone's old lady.

All of them, I respect them

and their old lady.

The old lady, if she forced me into a thing,

really forced me...

man, I wouldn't punk out. I'd rip her, but...

I know one thing.

If I was going out with one...

I'd always try to stay out

the other fella's way.

Have you ever, in your life...

had to jump out of a window

behind a woman?

Have you been caught in a bed

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