Reginald

Now, I was trying to survive prison.

I was 5'5 and 120 pounds.

Oh, my God.

Of those two books, I read Sonia Sanchez's book 100 times.

And I never finished reading The Art of War.

Yeah.

Because I learned the real way to survive prison ended up being love.

It ended up being the exact antithesis of what had gotten most of us in prison.

Because I think the antithesis of love...

is violence.

And so it was Sonia Sanchez's Undisciplined on Sky that became a part of the pathway of me learning to love myself, but also in learning to love myself, me learning to understand that we had did horrendous things to land ourselves in prison, but that we could be more than those things.

And I've spent my entire life since then trying to prove that to be true.

You know, the last book that I read, so my local library said, Mr. Betts, we understand you're still in prison.

but we need you to return this book that you checked out.

And it was the Evelyn Woods, but you wouldn't believe what book it was.

It was the Evelyn Woods Guide to Speed Reading.

See, I've always been obsessed with infomercials, right?

And they would have those infomercials on how to speed read.

And I was just like, my mom wouldn't let me, but she didn't believe that this guy could read, you know, a thousand words a minute.

When he was flipping the pages, my mom said, he's just flipping the pages.