Precious (II) (2009)
Chyna Layne: Rhonda
Quotes
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Clareece 'Precious' Jones : Nurse say I'm HIV positive. I ain't got nothing to write today.
Rhonda : Is your baby okay?
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : He alright. I just got to stop breastfeeding him.
Ms. Rain : I remember you once told me you never got to tell your story. Write.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : FUCK YOU! You don't know nothing of what I been through!
[begins to cry]
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : I ain't never had no boyfriend. My daddy say he gonna marry me. How he gonna do that? Would fucking be illegal!
Ms. Rain : Write.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : I'm tired, Ms. Rain.
Ms. Rain : If not for yourself, then for the people who love you.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : Nobody loves me.
Ms. Rain : People do love you, Precious.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : Please don't lie to me, Ms. Rain. Love ain't done nothing for me. Love beat me. Raped me. Called me an animal. Make me feel worthless. Make me sick!
Ms. Rain : That wasn't love, Precious. Your baby loves you. *I* love you. Write.
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Rhonda : [referring to Precious giving birth] How was it? Were you screaming?
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : It hurt.
Rhonda : Tough gal like you screaming?
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : Not so tough with a baby coming out of me.
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Clareece 'Precious' Jones : The food in this hospital's nasty.
Nurse John : [referring to the fruit he's eating] It's not from here.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : Where it from?
Nurse John : A little shop by my house where I get my organic food so I don't have to eat that nasty mystery meat stuff they got downstairs.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : Can you bring me something? I don't like fruit, I like McDonalds.
Nurse John : First of all, I don't eat McDonalds. And second of all, you don't need to be eating McDonalds, either. It's not healthy.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones : But I like McDonalds. We all like McDonalds, right?
Rhonda : Yeah, we like McDonalds, too, over here.
Jermaine : I don't like no damn McDonalds. I want some of that organic shit like you got.
Nurse John : [to Precious] Well, I'll tell you what. When you get up outta here, you go with all your little friends and you go down to McDonalds and you get as much McDonalds as you want. But right now, we take care of your health.