It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.
Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.
I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.
I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.
My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.
When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs in the state of Alabama are racist.
Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.
I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going to happen to me?'
Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.
Bitterness kills the soul.
I was put on death row because of hate.
I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.
Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.
For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.
The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.
