Before This Generation Goes On To Its

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.

The Role Of Television Is The Illusion Of Company, Noise. I Call It The Fifth Wall And The Second Window: The Window Of Illusion.

Very Few People In Prison Have Voices That Go Beyond The Wall. It's My Job To Do The Work For Them Because They Have No One.

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.

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