Trying to stay alive in Sing Sing.

I barely remember my birthplace, Jamaica, and I have no family left there. Frankly, I’m terrified.

“It’s conflicting, I imagine, to hear how someone who once took a life thinks about living a good life.”

“Saying goodbye with the people who loved him—and me—I remember that I am not the tomb that imprisons me.”

I had a shot at being the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Then I was convicted of murder.

“I wondered if I knew more of their history if I would still view them the same way.”