William Fonseca

I'm not a very good crook.

I'm not a very good criminal.

So I...

mainly my survival mode was what kicked in.

So people misunderstand when they look at society that some people are actually not given the opportunity to live.

They're actually obligated to survive.

And that's two different things.

It's two different worlds.

Now I'm coming from learning how to survive into this little piece of paper.

I'm going to go down Flagler Street here in Miami and I'm going to head to 35th Avenue and there I see a church and it's all closed and it's fenced and I say, well, you know what, I'm going to knock on the door and I'm going to ask for five bucks to eat.

And if I don't get five bucks to eat, I'm going to find something here because I'm jonesing.

I'm really jonesing.

I'm smoking coke.

I'm freebasing cocaine.

And I'm broke.

It's a $3 bill.

I'm 100 pounds wet.

I haven't bathed in about three days and I'm down, I'm literally heading towards destruction, more at a mode where the only thing that actually kept me from shooting myself was maybe it's just because I'm brave or maybe I'm a coward.

But at the end of the day, that particular scene didn't kick in.

So I knock on the door of this place and this guy opens the door.