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I am a joyful person.
Bitterness kills the soul.
I never used a gun in my life.
For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.
Life is not always what we think it is.
I was put on death row because of hate.
The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.
Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.
I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.
Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.
Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.
I cannot hate, because my Bible teaches me not to hate.
I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.
I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?
My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.
Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.
My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.
I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.
Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.
What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.
I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.
Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.
I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.
When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.
I just didn't believe the God that I served would allow me to die for something I didn't do.
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.
For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.
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.
I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.
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.
I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.
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?'
I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.
You get to know everyone on death row. You become friends with them and their families. I met some great guys. Everyone regrets what they did.
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.
I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.
Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.
You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it.
America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.
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.
My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.
On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.
To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights.