"Poetry Kept Me Alive"
“Poetry is a way of keeping alive and keeping emotionally vivid …. you need to keep feeling … without it you forget you are a human being …” prisoner
“I was a very young angry child … I marched for civil rights as a child… I got angry and militant… I got in trouble – not being able to read and write – I got locked up … then Martin Luther King Jr. died and got angrier – they took away my reading in prison … I got more angry and I did not stop until someone gave me back my book… I started reading and writing… I later formed a writers club”
