The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller Category: Prison
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet Category: Prison
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver Category: Prison
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say – and they want you to hear it. – Anna Deavere Smith Category: Death
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel Category: Truth
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. – Anita Hill Category: power
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. – William Shakespeare Category: Madness
