Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Page #6

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Identify the composer.

-Vivaldi.

-That's right, for 10 points.

This picture by Monet would be classified

as French Impressionism.

For 10 points, how is this picture classified?

-Primitive American.

-That's right.

Turn off that thing!

-I'll turn it down.

-No, I like it. Turn it up.

Won't Mrs. Graham

knock on the ceiling again?

Let her knock. We're moving.

We're moving?

That speech your 8th-grade teacher gave

ticked me off, so I went to the bank.

I've finally saved up enough money

to take back that house

we've been renting out.

So, starting next fall, you're going

to a school that appreciates you.

Hey, Carl, you heard what Goodwill did

with all the clothes so old and so ugly

-even the winos didn't want them?

-What?

They gave them to New Blood over there.

Do we have any money left?

-What do you mean?

-I need clothes for school.

-You got clothes for school.

-Old clothes.

-Good clothes.

-Not good enough for Hunter High.

I've seen the clothes them kids wear.

They're cheap.

No, they're not.

I didn't say they weren't expensive.

I sad they're cheap.

Most folks that wear cheap clothes

on the outside are dead on the inside.

The folks I work for,

they buy clothes that last.

That's what I try to get you.

Take Professor Burket. I wash his clothes

every week, and they always...

Bennie, don't you be slamming around here,

and don't you walk away

when I'm talking to you!

Hey, Carl, they should use Carson's shirt

in class as a chemistry lesson.

-A chemistry lesson?

-Yeah,

'cause it smelled so bad it killed all

the bugs that was breeding inside of it.

They was breeding

because your mama wore it.

I think you're confusing that

with your mama.

Her clothes are so raggedy,

even the mummy turned them down.

Your mama's so old,

she's the mummy's mama.

Your mama's so old,

your daddy's a dinosaur.

Your mama's so old,

her birth certificate says ''expired'' on it.

-Man, where we going?

-Come on.

You got the money?

-I need clothes for school.

-You got clothes for school.

Not good enough for Hunter High.

Come on.

Jerome.

This is my man.

Give him the money.

Okay.

-Morning.

-Morning.

Why aren't you wearing the pants I got you?

Don't they ft?

I don't know. I didn't try them on.

-Why not?

-They're the wrong kind.

What you mean, they're the wrong kind?

I pad good money for them pants.

That's too bad.

You can take them back if you want.

I can't take them back.

I bought them on special.

Well, that's too bad,

but I'm not gonna wear them.

I'm fixing this window myself, Bennie,

so I'd have money to get you them pants.

That's your problem.

Look, throw them away!

I'm not gonna wear them!

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