"Precious"
By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan.
From Geoffrey Fletcher's screenplay:
PRECIOUS (V.O.)
I like maff but I don't say nuffin' - don't open my book even. Just sit there. . . . Everyday I tell myself something gonna happen, like I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me - I'm gonna learn, catch up, be normal, sit in the front . . . someday.
PRECIOUS (V.O.)
The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint a picture of me 'an my muver - my whole family as less than dumb just ugly black grease to be wiped away, punished, caged up, kilt, changed, finded a job for. Sometimes I wish I was not alive. I be O.K. I guess.
I never talked in class before. I guess now I could do that too.
MS. RAIN (beat)
How does it make you feel?
Precious looks around but seems to be searching inside more than anywhere else. After a moment ...
PRECIOUS
Here. It make me feel ... here.
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