Aunt Zelmare, what would you do if you saw something wrong? Something you could fix?
Nothing.
What do you mean?
I mean nothing.
Because you're a criminal?
I ain't a criminal.
You're innocent, you're saying?
Girl, I ain't been innocent since Uncle Charlie cornered me in the shed when I was nine.
Then I don't understand.
She's saying we ain't criminals. We're outlaws.
See, criminals play the game.
What game?
Life. The earth.
Society, right? They got their rules. Banking and family. An honest dollar for an honest day's work. Politics and voting. And the criminal, he on the other side of that, but still he play the game. And if he plays it long enough, he even starts to talk about going legit.
The outlaw, on the other hand...
The outlaw, on the other hand, well, we reject the game. Society. Ain't nothing organized about our crime 'cause our crime is freedom.
No rules.
And nothing's ever broke and there ain't nothing to fix.
All we want is to live while we're alive and die with a gun in our hands.
You a bit of an outlaw.
Yeah. Your mama sees it, too. In the eyes. That's why she say, "Keep away."
I'm not an outlaw.
Then which are you - a convict or a square?
I'm not either one of those things.
What are you then?
I'm Ethelrida Pearl Smutny. One of a kind.
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