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Claudine: What are you doing to do?
Charlene: Get married, and we'll both work.
Claudine: You'll both work? Together, you'll make one salary. And when the baby comes, they'll be three people living on half a salary. That's the half you can't even count on.
Charlene: Abdullah says that if...
Claudine: 'Abdullah says'? Abdullah's full of crap, that's what he is. He's just like all those other black studs. Full of crap!
Charlene: [close to tears] Mama, black men have made great contributions. George Washington Carver. W.E.B. DuBois. Frederick Douglass.
Claudine: Ain't if just too damn bad you didn't get your ass knocked up by Frederick Douglass!
Charlene: Get married, and we'll both work.
Claudine: You'll both work? Together, you'll make one salary. And when the baby comes, they'll be three people living on half a salary. That's the half you can't even count on.
Charlene: Abdullah says that if...
Claudine: 'Abdullah says'? Abdullah's full of crap, that's what he is. He's just like all those other black studs. Full of crap!
Charlene: [close to tears] Mama, black men have made great contributions. George Washington Carver. W.E.B. DuBois. Frederick Douglass.
Claudine: Ain't if just too damn bad you didn't get your ass knocked up by Frederick Douglass!
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Mama don't Mama don't
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You goddamn tramp
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You goddamn tramp Charlene screaming
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You goddamn screaming
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You You god damn tramp
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screaming Charlene wailing Don't Don't Don't
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Don't Don't
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Charlene crying
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sobbing
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coughing Okay
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Charlene sobbing coughing
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gasping sobbing
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What are you gonna do
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Get married and uh
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we'll both work
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You'll both work
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sniffles Together you'll make one salary
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And when the baby comes it'll be three people living on half a salary
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That's the half you can't even count on sniffles
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Abdullah says that Abdullah says
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Abdullah's full of crap that's what he is
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He's just like all them other black studs He's full of crap
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Mama sniffles
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Black men have made great contributions
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sniffles
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George Washington Carver
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W E B Du Bois
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Frederick Douglass
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Well ain't it just too damn bad
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you didn't get your ass knocked up by Frederick Douglass
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Movie Summary
In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
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