Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500 000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Your potential in this world is timeless
I knew at that moment I had to make a choice. I could submit to everything...
Sometimes I feel like there is skin upon the world. And those of us who...
I'm smart. I know I can succeed. I just need a chance. A chance to climb...
I said to myself: what if I woke up, and every single day I did everything...
Homeless person or business person, doctor or teacher, whatever your...
I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a...
My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her...
I'd give it back, all of it, if I could have my family back.
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was...
I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to...
People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But...
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until...
I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an...
When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.
I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me...
I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't...
I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found...
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to...
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that...
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since...
The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's...
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my...
In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed...
My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams...
If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough...
When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you...
Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a...
Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next,...
Success creates opportunities for other people.
If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test...
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of...
One point of view gives a one dimensional world.
Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became...
