Status Updates From Long Walk to Freedom: Volume 1

p681 I expresed my delight to be back among them, but then i scolded the people for some of the crippling problems of urban black life. Students, I said, must return to school. Crime must be brought under control (...) Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom after all.

p.673 As i finally walked through those prison gates to enter a car on the other side, i felt - even at the age of seventy-one, that my life was beginning anew.

p.671 I did not dwell on the prospect of my release, but on all the many things i had to do before them. As so often happens in life, the momentousness of an occassion is lost in the welter of a thousand details.

P616. It was if I were still dreaming. I held her to me for what felt like an eternity. We were still silent except for the sounds of our hearts (...) It had been 21 years since I had even touched my wife's hand

P 605. Once again, i thought it necessary to draw a distinction between principle and tactics.

P.581 To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one's daily life. One can feel fulfilled by washing one's clothes so that they are particularly clean, by sweeping one's corridor so that it is free of dust, by organizing one's cell to conserve as much space as possible.