Tatespeech

In jail, you have food. You are not on fire. You are bored, but you are okay. So why are you suffering? The only torture comes from your own mind. This isn’t just jail… this is life. Control your thoughts or suffer.

A seed fears neither the light or the dark, as it uses both to grow.

When lunch came I stole Tristan's fork. He smiled at me and said. “It's ok Andrew. I will let you have my fork. I consent. Just hope I don’t change my mind 10 years later or you’ll be right back here in this cell”

I have been in jail for 93 days. As of today, the USA has held me in jail longer than Romania did. Romania charged me with crimes after their largest and most expensive investigation in history and held me in jail for less time than the USA did for a 15-year-o…

Every morning Tristan holds out his open palms and says “Don’t worry Andrew, your destiny is right here, in my hands, I will take care of you” Then he walks across the cell and “trips” to “drop” my imaginary destiny into the toilet. He then stares at me while…

There is no joy without pain. Pain carves a ravine in your heart. And it’s only the ravine that fills with joy. Without pain, with a smooth undamaged heart, joy splashes off like water off a duck’s back. There is no light without dark.

There is a paint blob on the wall of our cell, which I say looks like a fox's face and Tristan said looks like a Lobster man. Tristan has warned me to accept that it's Lobster man, or I will regret it when the Lobsters come. After 10 days or so of deep and imp…

Emory Andrew Tate III Prisoner Number: 52354506