Chris Young > Quotes

“Crack cocaine had created an upside down world where adults begged from children and children believed they were men.”
― Chris Young, The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience

“The system was designed that way. They said the system is for correction, for rehabilitation but there's nothing corrective about being warehoused in the middle of nowhere with no meaningful educational programs. No counsel to heal the childhood trauma that led most of us there. There's nothing rehabilitative about humiliation, being locked down day after day treated like we were beyond saving. McCreary was designed to cage us, not just in ourselves but in our own minds. To rewire them, to make us question if we were still human.”
― Chris Young, The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience

“I wanna say, thank you. Thank you for treating me like a man and looking at me like a man. Because some people, they naturally look at us like we're something else just because we made mistakes and we've ended up on the other side of the law.”
― Chris Young, The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience

“In prison time warps. We say doing time but for many men, time does them. We don't serve years, we survive days, seconds. The routine and the nothinngness change you. Every day in the USP is the same shit until it isn't, until something breaks the monotony. Almost always that something is violence.”
― Chris Young, The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience