00:00I feel like
00:29I've always looked at the world different because of what I've been through.
00:38Have you ever seen Madeline?
00:43No?
00:45Well, in Madeline, they have like rows of tall beds.
00:51It's like rooms of the same thing.
00:53Like, it's a room where it'll have like 10 beds.
00:56I've been there like three, four times.
01:03My sister only been there once.
01:05She was only four.
01:10I hate it there.
01:11Children can languish in foster care for years.
01:19Oftentimes when they are infants to the time that they are adults.
01:24And then when they turn 21, they are literally turned out to the street with a metro card and a couple of dollars.
01:29Third house that we went to, that had to be one of our worst homes.
01:36We was barely eaten.
01:38Like, insure was everything.
01:39It was life to me.
01:40I would have to steal in order for it to get us to eat.
01:49There's all these agencies who get paid to keep children in foster care.
01:52Fortunately, children are being abused in a system, being neglected in a system.
01:56Most of the children in foster care, just like most of the children in the criminal justice system, look like me, the children of color.
02:08I would turn up all the time, yelling, screaming, hitting people, just so I could see my sister.
02:17How am I going to know if she's all right?
02:20They like to separate people.
02:23And I was making it known, we're not going nowhere apart.
02:26We will stay in this building forever.
02:28We have to.
02:29We're not being separated.
02:30So I had to do what I had to do.
02:46My little pride and joy.
02:48I love her.
02:49I love her with all types of passions, everything.
02:52That's like my daughter.
02:54I don't know.
02:55I just love her.
02:56She's like the complete opposite of me.
03:01Like, I'm like the boy and she's legit the girl.
03:06She likes the glitter.
03:07She likes the heels, the makeup.
03:09Everything I hate is what she loves.
03:15When I was younger, I used to try to dress her up like a boy, everything.
03:21That's how I always dress and I've always felt comfortable like that.
03:26I used to be the king.
03:27She used to be the princess.
03:29All my friends, we was all like, yeah, we're going to go to the same high school.
03:36She never used to get her hair done.
03:38I never used to have my hair done.
03:40We used to have dirty clothes.
03:42That's how I learned how to wash clothes.
03:44Like, you know, taking stuff to the laundry.
03:46Trial and error.
03:47We just go and try it until it smells good, you know?
03:49So...
03:52I just didn't want her to go through what I was going through.
03:55Like, I tried to make it seem like we was living in as good of a predicament as possible.
04:02We don't live together at the moment.
04:04But if I could see her every day, that would, yeah.
04:09That would brighten up my day every day.
04:16Oh, this is the official?
04:17Every day somebody dying in these streets and it's getting kinda hard to make ends meet.
04:26Your son is slinking drugs and going in and out of jail.
04:29When you just found out your daughter's pregnant, oh hell.
04:32A M.I.A. father really shows how much he cares.
04:34Especially since he hasn't bothered to see his kids in years.
04:37Sacrificed blood, sweat and tears.
04:39And never got a thank you after all these years.
04:41Feel like you're reaching your breaking point.
04:43Or wanna run away.
04:44Just you could prove a point.
04:46But what's the point?
04:47Pick your head up and replace your frown.
04:49Because you'll never know you rose unless you hit the ground.
04:51There's only one you in this world, so you gotta stand up.
04:54And like Tupac said, you gotta keep your head up.
05:14When you see things through a camera, you see it completely different.
05:20After seeing her through the camera, I was just like, oh my god.
05:27One of my closest friends is so beautiful.
05:41Three, two, one.
05:50We're going to fill the sachets.
05:52We have Gio.
06:04Expressing my imagination through art was the only real way for me to be happy.
06:11After the fight, my mother got cut.
06:14I got cut on the side of my face.
06:17I'm goofy, fun, good vibes.
06:21There's a certain energy that every group brings.
06:23And there's always a couple of students that foster the bonding and foster the community.
06:29I think Gio is definitely one of the students in this group.
06:32Thanks.
06:47My biggest fear is dying without being known.
06:59I don't want to just be a person that the block knew.
07:04Or a person that this street knew, or these people knew.
07:10You see how when Michael Jackson died, the whole world cried.
07:17I want that to happen.
07:20I never had nothing, so...
07:30I want everything, you know?
07:32I want everything, you know?
08:02We have ten for the most distractions.
08:06You have three workouts.
08:08I want everything.
08:11But when I did think of myself, you work, you get me.
08:13It's good work.
08:15You bek him.
08:16You bring me my joy.
08:17That what you carry yourself is, you bring me your reputation.
08:18I always get another great guy.
08:21Here's how my wife is praying for me.
08:22I will come among you to come.
08:23And the next place is you...
08:25If you have any ...
08:27I do not know the attitude.
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