Shaka Senghor

So if there's something that you feel is holding you back,

One, you just have to call that thing what it is.

And then you get a chance to decide what are you going to do about it?

And that's the beauty of where we started from.

We're not supposed to be sitting here based on the statistics.

We're sitting here because we made choices in spite of.

We made the harder choices to make.

try to figure out how to do your purpose when you're not getting the big checks.

You know, you're selling two books and two CDs and, you know, three people are showing up to your show and you got to perform like it's 3,000 or, you know, two people show up to your book signing and yet you got to keep making just one

step after the next and for for me it's like you count all those victories and you accrue enough of them and you'll see life really you know it's just like training right it's like you lift you start to get stronger and you're like oh okay i'm getting some action but you got to be consistent yes to get the strength that you desire you know so yeah life is metaphor

When I came out of prison, I didn't have a plan to go back to crime.

I came out of prison with one gift and I'm about to tell you what that gift is.

Not a gun, not a criminal, but a gift.

I'm offering this poem.

I'm offering this poem to you since I have nothing else to give.

Keep it like a warm coat when the winter comes to cover you or

like a pair of thick socks that cannot fight through.

I love you.

I got nothing else to give you.

So it's a pot full of yellow corn to warm your belly in the winter.