Shaka Senghor

And that even the lowliest of us can rise again.

And that is something I've learned in prison from just being around incredible, incredible men, some of the most inspiring men that I've ever met in my life.

a second lesson that i would say is one of the ones that probably is the most near and dear to my heart um is being in service of others is one of the greatest expressions of our humanity um something that i've carried you know i'm always in service of specifically young people and people who are marginalized and

who have been forgotten about or demeaned by society.

Then I would just, I think the third one is,

It's kind of like the third one is that prison doesn't define you.

It just reveals the essence of who you are.

And like that to me is rooted in, you know, this question that I get often of like, how did you become so resilient?

And I'm like, I didn't go in prison knowing I was resilient.

It wasn't until I was in the story that I began to recognize this deeper part of what it means to be able to overcome adversity.

And that's what prison revealed to me about myself is that as someone who's had, I mean, just incredible amounts of trauma and adversity, I also have an indomitable will to overcome those things.

And so those are probably the big key lessons.

But I mean, like Chris says, there's so many more.

When he was speaking about naming the things, right, I was really...

like, struck in my spirit by the idea of, like, fear.

And something that's really interesting in society is we always talk about people who are courageous.

But you can't have courage if you were never afraid.

It's true.

Like, if you're not afraid, then that doesn't require you to be courageous.

But if you've ever been courageous in your life, if you've ever done anything where you're like, man, it took courage to do that.