Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Ray Hinton - Page 2

The men on death row had been told the world would be better without them. I tried to say that this may not be where we want to be, but let's do what we can for one another.

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.

If you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "What am I gonna do?" But my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. And he had already told me "Whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife."

Life is not always what we think it is.

I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.