73 Quotes by Anthony Ray Hinton

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

I want people to realize that we can teach hate, but we also can teach love.

Bitterness kills the soul.

I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.

I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world.

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.