All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

America wants its respect.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.