“See, Jackie and me, we’ve both been beat on a lot. That’s the way it is when you haven’t got a daddy, and your mama’s a crackhead. There’s always lots of uncles coming and going and getting high. And when they get high they beat on you. “Trouble now is that Jackie’s still letting people beat on her. She doesn’t know she can make it stop. I try to tell her. I tell her to look at me. Nobody’s gonna beat on me ever again. I’ve got self-respect. I’m gonna do something with my life. I might even go to college someday.”
