I Was Punished For Communicating.

I Spend My Days Preparing For Life, Not Preparing For Death.

Free People Have A Right To Decide For Themselves What They Want To Hear.

I Think Because I Came Into Journalism By Way Of The Black Panther Party - And Not J-school Or A Corporate Bourgeois Institution - I Tried To Do News, Writing And Reporting That Had Social, Political And Racial Content And Context.

Prison Is A Second-by-second Assault On The Soul, A Day-to-day Degradation Of The Self, An Oppressive Steel And Brick Umbrella That Transforms Seconds Into Hours And Hours Into Days.

Conventional Wisdom Would Have One Believe.