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A young man fights for the one thing that can get him out of life's vicious cycle: an education. James Wilson is a gifted scholar living in a dark world surrounded by human obstacles. Fighting within his inner circle threatens his chance. James' teacher pries to see what his future can hold, but tragedy strikes, and it is enough to make James doubt it all.
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00:06When a man starts out to build a world, he first starts with himself.
00:12What did he mean?
00:13Change yourself, you change your world.
00:22See, it's always about choices, son.
00:25See, there's a rule.
00:30That leads to a rule.
00:31A couple of us are going to cut class if you want to come.
00:33That leads to another rule that leads to another rule.
00:36Don't sit there.
00:37It's going to be my line of sight.
00:38Get in the back.
00:39Dana's going to college.
00:41He ain't going nowhere.
00:42They're going to have us a baby as soon as we graduate.
00:47Stop hustling.
00:48Where you think you're going with that bad test?
00:49What's up in there, huh?
00:51I ain't glad, boy.
00:52A man has to put food on the table and pay for the rent that comes like clockwork.
00:56There are folks here.
00:57They want to help.
00:57I don't need no handouts.
00:59It takes five seconds to get in trouble and 25 years to get out.
01:03I'm trying to get up out of here.
01:04And this right here, this is my way out.
01:07Oh, so you think you're grown now.
01:08You just going to leave me?
01:10I'm tired of all the noise and the stress.
01:12You are a liar!
01:13I don't think God made me strong enough to deal with this.
01:15Don't put limits on God.
01:18You can love them.
01:19I'm going to show you who Christ.
01:20You can pray for them.
01:22Get some rest, son.
01:23But you can't live your life for them.
01:26I refuse to accept that this is all there is.
01:29I refuse to accept that this is all there is.
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