Queen Sugar

* My daddy made no excuse *

* I believe my lies are truth *

* Why won't you eat what you're fed? *

* 'Cause when I touch myself *

* I think of only you

* And when I touch someone else *

* No one is faithful

* I am weak, I'll go astray *

* Forgive me for my ways *

* No one is faithful

* No one is faithful

* I am weak

* I hear voices and I *

* Can't stand to be alone *

* 'Cause emptiness

* Is all I've ever known *

* Soiled by my lust

* I feel no shame

* No longer forsaken

* When they call my name

* Beautiful angels come to my bed *

* I'm satisfied

* On the flesh I fed

* No one is faithful

* I am weak, I'll go astray *

* Forgive me for my ways *

* No one is faithful

* No one is faithful...

Be good.

I won't tell you the same.

Hm. You know better.

( children's voices overlapping )

Pop, we want another churro.

Four for a dollar, buddy. You got two more.

Those are yours though.

Nah, you have them. Just take it easy, okay?

- Okay. - Okay, listen to me.

Listen. Now, every time these men finish five plays,

you and Kenya have a churro.

Five plays, Blue. See if you can be disciplined.

Didn't we talk about discipline, remember?

Come here.

Sit down.

- How many plays? - Five plays.

Five plays, then churros.

That's my boy.

Mm.

Don't move.

There's your churros.

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- ( music playing ) - Pop: All right, man.

- Man: A'ight. What's up, man? - Man #2: What's up, Ralph?

Give it to me.

Bitch, I said right now.

I saw your face!

Boy, what did you do?

Hi, buddy.

- Hi, Pop. - You did good.

- You did so good. - I was disciplined.

Yeah?

Me and Kenya are ready to go.

Yeah, let's go. Come on.

Ready to go, boy?

* They can't catch me, 'cause I'm too strong... *

Davis?

Micah, it's time to go. Let's go!

Micah, you heard your mother, now. Don't make her call you twice.

Sorry, Mom, I was on the phone.

And when are you not on the phone?

It's like a member of the family now, you know.

- Micah: You have two phones! - I need two phones.

You should get his friends to pay the bill.

- You multitask. - All right. Bye.

- Have a good game, Mr. West. - Thanks, Rocky.

Uh, good game, Dad.

See you tonight, honey.

You gave him money.

How does that help prove my point?

What is the point again?

That we can't spoon-feed him every opportunity.

He needs to work for money. He's 15, he's gotta learn.

Okay.

Well, he takes after his mother.

He's the top of his class. He's the smartest kid in the room.

Baby, I think he's learning just fine.

I mean learning real life, Davis.

Charley,

this is our real life.

- ( sighs ) - Ain't it good?

Hm?

Just let it be good.

Come here.

- Hit 'em where it hurts, baby. - Always.

* Dreams never die, take flight, as the world turns *

* Dreams never die, take flight, as the world turns *

* Dreams never die, take flight, as the world turns *

* Keep the colors in the lines-- take flight *

Dreams never die *

* Keep the colors in the lines *

* Keep the colors in the lines-- take flight. *

( saxophone solo playing )

* Yeah! Every day...

* I got sunshine...

Yeah, somethin' tell me you workin' on a pot of greens down there.

Somethin' tell me you workin' on some ribs in there.

- Yeah, I am. - You are.

- What else you want? - Cornbread.

- Want some cornbread? Cornbread. - Collard greens.

- Mm-hmm. You want some sweet tea? - Sweet tea?

- All right, all right. - You got the sweet tea, girl.

I think you gettin' a treat. Mm-hmm.

- I want me a treat. - You want a treat?

Oh-- oh, look at that baby.

Hey, what up, Ralph Angel?

What up, what up?

Knocked out around Route 13.

Missed most of the ride. Here.

Yeah. Anything?

Said maybe they'll bring on new men in fall.

But not now.

I... went and picked up some money a friend owed me, though.

- Take that. - Oh, no, chére. Uh-uh.

- For keepin' Blue and stuff. - No, chére. Uh-uh.

Give it to your daddy. He needs it more than I do.

Hollywood take good care of me.

Put it up.

Don't fret that. I mean, that boy at home here.

Man, I appreciate that.

When are you at the rig next?

Time's up on Tuesday, man.

I'm tryin' to find me a weekend, but man, your aunt,

she got me workin' day a night.

I ain't tryin' to hear all that, man.

I'm tryin' to tell you, man. She got my back all jacked up and everything.

You need to find you one, though. Makes life sweeter.

Yeah, well everybody not like y'all.

Oh, I know that! I know that.

Singer: * I think I'm in a maze

* I'm feeling conflicted within my brain *

* All these contradictions got me feeling strange *

* Is this a phase?

* Or is this the way?

Rapper: * I wanna make nonstop profit *

* I wanna make it non-profit *

* Close down a store when I go shoppin' *

* Open up the floor for a closed topic *

* And relax on the beach in remote tropics *

* But grind like I'm broke and I'm so jobless *

* Feelin' like it's me against the world *

* It's the other way around *

* We polluting and we won't stop it *

* I wanna stay home and play Xbox *

* But my homies keep on hittin' up my inbox... *

I mean, there'd be a camera here right now filming.

I don't want my life on TV. I love it how it is.

Well, that's because your man treats you like a frickin' queen.

I mean, the pedestal, crown, the whole nine.

You guys are fancy and you know it.

And that's exactly the type of positivity

that people need to see, Charley.

I mean, we'll bring the hair-pullin' and the name-callin'.

And you bring the class and the romance.

You know, like that story that you told us,

what was it, about how you and Davis met?

At that fraternity thing, right?

Phi Beta Kappa isn't a fraternity, girl, it's an academic cl--

Whatever it is, okay? It's not the club

- and it's not outside the arena. - Right.

The bottom line is, everyone doesn't have a Davis West on their arm

with a perfect kid.

Some of us-- real talk--

some of us have to work just as hard at this game

as they do on the court.

We need you on this, Charley.

They want you. You know that.

( phones buzzing, chirping )

Oh, my God.

They say Eddie is on tape.

And Will, and...

they say Rashid.

Davis isn't here.

Davis isn't here, but Felix.

Unbelievable. The whole starting line, almost.

- What does this mean? - Okay, come on. Let's go.

- We gotta get outta here. - ( woman gasps )

Just two dabs, no more.

Oh, it real bad, Miss Nova.

You don't expect I need more?

Two dabs only, sister.

Faith fills in the rest.

Hmm.

Merci, Jesus.

Mais non.

I won't take it.

Okay, Miss Blanche, two dabs.