Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, a Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpecte | dG1fRm5zdlFUSWNSTUE
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00:00Shadows on the wall. Noise down the hall. Life doesn't frighten me at all.
00:14Mean old mother goose. Lions on the loose. They don't frighten me at all.
00:26Dragons breathing flame on my counterpane. That doesn't frighten me at all.
00:32I go boop, bake them, shoot. I make fun the way they run. Life doesn't frighten me at all.
00:39Mama Joyce! Oh my God! Good girl!
00:45Hello. Hey.
00:49I ain't seen you for 15 years, but now you're going to be somebody's granddaddy. You're somebody's daddy now.
00:53I don't want him to hear this. Listen, I need you to speak to him. I need you to talk to him.
00:57No. He has changed. He ain't changed.
01:00He's just going to follow us home if you don't deal with it here.
01:10Let's get it.
01:19He gave me you, Terrell. He was my first love. He was my first love.
01:25You got flaws, Terrell. Ain't you got flaws?
01:27You're not the same man you used to know before, Terrell. That's what you said, right?
01:32Why are you still making excuses for him?
01:34If you don't forgive others of their past sins, then you can't be forgiven.
01:38Have you asked yourself once, one time, what's best for us? For him? For your grandson?
01:45This ain't about him. It's about mom.
02:02I put it on campus so that I could hold it by the throat.
02:15I put it on campus so that I could hold it by the throat.