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I remember my ignorance
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Between the World and Me

I remember my ignorance. I remember watching hereat with her hand and feeling wholly...

I remember my ignorance. I remember watching her
eat with her hand and feeling wholly uncivilized
with my fork

Full Transcript

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I remember my ignorance.
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I remember watching her eat with her hand
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and feeling wholly uncivilized with my fork.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:02
Uploaded
Jun 02, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films

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Movie Summary

The special will include powerful readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, it will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors' home life, archival footage, and animation.
(CHUCKLES) - Between the World and Me 00:17
(CHUCKLES)
In my small apartment, she kissed me - Between the World and Me 00:04
In my small apartment, she kissed me
How many awful poems did I write about her? - Between the World and Me 00:10
How many awful poems did I write about her?
She held the lineage of other worlds - Between the World and Me 00:06
She held the lineage of other worlds
I fell again, a short time later, - Between the World and Me 00:07
I fell again, a short time later,
Tall with flowing dreadlocks. - Between the World and Me 00:08
Tall with flowing dreadlocks.
All-white in Pennsylvania, - Between the World and Me 00:15
All-white in Pennsylvania,
I grew up in a house where there was-- - Between the World and Me 00:06
I grew up in a house where there was--
But this girl revealed something that love could be soft, - Between the World and Me 00:08
But this girl revealed something that love could be soft,
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:08
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ALI: I fell in love at the Mecca one last time. - Between the World and Me 00:04
ALI: I fell in love at the Mecca one last time.
Lost my balance and all my boyhood - Between the World and Me 00:05
Lost my balance and all my boyhood
I stood with a blunt in one hand, - Between the World and Me 00:05
I stood with a blunt in one hand,
to the Chicago girl. - Between the World and Me 00:12
to the Chicago girl.
She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled, - Between the World and Me 00:22
She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled,
Wondering what it must be to embrace her, - Between the World and Me 00:10
Wondering what it must be to embrace her,
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a child - Between the World and Me 00:08
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a chi...
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a child - Between the World and Me 00:44
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a...
Told as a young woman that she was really pretty - Between the World and Me 00:05
Told as a young woman that she was really pretty
There was all about her a knowledge - Between the World and Me 00:19
There was all about her a knowledge