🥺 Powerful Mother‑Son Talk About Grief & Legacy | Fences

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]I'm not going to papa's funeral. He >> is not going to his house funeral to his you talking about. I don't hear that kind of talk this morning and raise you to come to this. You standing there all healthy and grown talking about you ain't going to your dad's funeral. I don't want to hear it, Cory.

[00:00:15]>> Just get that thought out of your head.

[00:00:16]>> I got to say no to him one time in my life. I got to say no.

[00:00:18]>> I don't got to listen to that. Now, I know you and your dad ain't seen, but I don't have to listen to that kind of talk this morning. Disrespecting your dad ain't going to make your man, Cory.

[00:00:26]You got to find some way to come to that on your own. Not going to your daddy's funeral ain't going to make you a man.

[00:00:30]>> The whole time I was growing up living in his house.

[00:00:32]>> Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. This shadow was nothing but you growing into yourself. You got to grow into cut it down to fit you. But that's all you got to make life with.

[00:00:40]That's all you got to measure yourself against the world out there. Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't.

[00:00:46]And at the same time, he wanted you to be everything he was. Now, I don't know if he was right or wrong, but I do know he meant to do more good than he meant to do harm when I first met your daddy.

[00:00:55]Here's a man I can lay down with and make a baby. And your daddy walked through the house realization.

[00:01:05]He filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave some room for me.

[00:01:10]>> But I wanted a house I could sing in.

[00:01:13]And that's what your daddy gave me. I didn't know to keep up his strength. I had to give up little pieces of mine. It was my choice, my life. And I didn't have to live it like that. But that's what life offered me in the way of being a woman. I took it. I grabbed it with both hands.

[00:01:29]And by the time Reel came into the house, I didn't want to make my blessings off of nobody's misfortune.

[00:01:35]But I took on the Reel like she was all them babies I wanted and never had. Like I've been blessed to relive a part of my life. And if the Lord see to keep up my strength, I'm going to do her exactly how your daddy did you. I'mma give her the best of what's in