Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

by Albert Woodfox

began to see a man who has been confined to a cell for over 27 years. I also seen a man who has been condemned to die here in Angola. But yet I seen no hate within him. Nor did I see fear. But he did show that he was a man who were determined to become a better person. While realizing that he was living in a world where being better sometimes meant nothing. He showed that he was a man whose wisdom may very well be unlimited and whose strive for knowledge has become his faith. Seeing all of this and more, in Mr. Woodfox, is what inspired me to become a better person within myself. Through Mr. Woodfox I was reminded that a man who chooses not to seek knowledge is the same as a boy who choose not to become a man. I now realize that knowledge can be the key for that what sometimes seem impossible in life.