Daniel Beaty
I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.Collection: Pain
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.Collection: Thinking
We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.Collection: Past
Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.Collection: World
The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.Collection: Children
Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.Collection: Second Chance
I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.Collection: Believe
My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.Collection: Brother
We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even the young man over the gang for success because it's a system that's broken, not just the actions of the individual.Collection: Men