Stanley Williams
Stanley Williams
Stanley "Tookie" Williams IIIwas one of the early leaders in the West Side Crips, an American street gang which has its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969. Once incarcerated, he authored several books, including anti-gang and anti-violence literature and children's books...
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth29 December 1953
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The Stanley Williams case is about a man who has done what I think is the most important thing a man can do in this country, and that is reach out to the youth of this country with books, with tapes ...,
discredit turn
They would try at every turn to discredit me, but I was game,
time
If it's my time to be executed, what's all the ranting and raving going to do?
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I look at his work and I not only see my stories, but it becomes clear to me that these are stories of the human experience, regardless of ethnicity. It makes the stage so much bigger for me. I think his plays will resonate across time.
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Prison is a place where grown men have gone insane. It is a place where men have been killed and where some have even killed themselves. Prison is hell. This I know, ... Life in Prison.
destroying
The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,