Believe Quote by Patricia McConnell

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try…

— Jay-Z

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

— Patricia McConnell

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

— M. John Harrison

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

— Jack Abbott

You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits of their…

— Bob Proctor

It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash that changes…

— Brian Banks

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You…

— Max Lucado

Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

— Roger Avary

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

— Roger Avary

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and…

— Susan Burton

Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.

— Babar Ahmad

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I…

— Patricia McConnell