:18:00
Now, look at this! What you doin',
peddling this gold-can jive?
:18:04
You can bake it, broil it,
fry it, hang it out to dry,
:18:08
it's still just as funky
as a fat man's drawers!
:18:10
Don't you see people hungry? What do
you do for people, numbers man?
:18:14
l have told you several times,
l'm the poor man's racetrack.
:18:18
You take the money
needed to put food on the table.
:18:21
A million-to-one odds - it's a scam!
lt's gambling, that's what it is.
:18:25
Excuse me.
:18:26
The numbers provide jobs for
2,000 coloured folks in Harlem alone.
:18:30
A penny gets you $6 -
a month's groceries.
:18:33
A month's worth of people food,
not this bullshit!
:18:36
lt's the only home-grown business we got.
:18:38
- Are you his partner?
- Don't worry about it.
:18:40
Y'all make a better team
than Amos 'n' Andy!
:18:44
l don't need no partner.
My name is Bumpy Johnson.
:18:49
Bumpy? Your momma
named you Bumpy?
:18:54
What you gonna do
with that hair in Africa?
:18:57
They ain't got no straightening
combs over there! Ugly!
:19:00
- She fine as frog legs!
- OK, cousin,
:19:03
- tell me about Miss Francine Hughes.
- Oh, Francine!
:19:07
She always quoting Marcus Garvey
about moving back to hot-ass Africa.
:19:12
l think she work down at
that United Negro something-or-other.
:19:15
- lmprovement Association?
- That's it.
:19:18
Man, she sure is high-toned!
:19:20
You see the glimmers on that girl?
Where do you think she got them eyes?
:19:24
Francine Hughes is not gonna
take up with the likes of you.
:19:28
She high-powered
and she got her boots laced,
:19:31
so don't even pay that no nevermind.
:19:33
All l wanna do is converse with her.
:19:35
Yeah, l bet you gonna have
a long-ass conversation!
:19:40
Son, the man that walks with Francine
will walk down the Christian path!
:19:46
Hey! Damn! All these roaches in here!
lt's like stepping on cornflakes.
:19:52
At least you won't be sleeping alone.
:19:54
Hey, Bumpy, you know, these last
couple of years here with you gone,