Shaka Senghor

And I was like, yo, I'm still asked permission.

So I get there and I'm outside.

And my son's mom comes to pick me up at the time.

And she has the books with her.

And I sold my first book in a parking lot.

I sold the first book in the parking lot.

I still have, it's the funniest picture ever.

I got on these big baggy shorts that were probably from the 90s, an oversized t-shirt.

And I sold that first book 15 years ago.

I've been selling books ever since.

Um, and so when I, when I came home, that's what I, I thought that was my purpose was just to sell these novels.

And I ended up writing, writing my wrongs after prison and that book skyrocketed.

But I wrote it for that reason where I would go and do these talks and people would say, you don't sound like someone who's been in prison.

And they meant it as a compliment.

But I was like, I just left some of the most brilliant scholars, some of the greatest legal minds, some of the greatest writers, thinkers, comedians, you name it.

Those were the men I served time with.

That's what inspired me to write Right and My Wrongs.

I wanted people to understand that whatever landed us there was not the defining part of who we all are.

We're still humans.

We're dreamers, builders, doers.