Robert Boyd

Best job I ever had, you didn't get fired. You fired yourself. As long as you came to work and worked, you had a job. It was hard work but I had it made because I knew how to work.

Now we as men are fearful when we walk through a group of boys, when we were boys, when we walked through a group of men, we felt secure. Something is wrong.

I used to do my walking there, not just I, but older cats and younger cats would just walk. That's when you saw community -- younger, older people. You see people and say, 'How you doing.' They don't want you on the track now.

If you don't invest in them now, you're just going to have to build more prisons, and that just seems like that's what the plan is. They won't educate you. But they'll incarcerate you in a minute.

There was something about the way he said that that let me know that's the way you supposed to be if you wanted respect.