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he has an incredible sense of scale and proportion. he knows how to make beautiful lines and beautiful shapes. collection number two launched this year. this is the key. being a good businessman or a good artist, it s about knowing how to market. a lot of artists don t know how to sell. it s one thing to be an amazing artist. but you have to be a great salesman. when you think of business, you think of competition, though. you have to beat out the competitors. what happens is people are trying to compete to be like you. the ones who are the most creative are not competing. they re always on their own level. here i would do the back the couch and try to make it three-dimensional. you say how can i make it more interesting. you might draw over it. it might be cooler if i did a circle over that. this is what i learned to do as a a kid. that s kind of cool.
lockdown 24. it s inevitable to end up here. if jails were filled with white kids from the suburbs and then they were making those white kids work for no money, how long do you that i operation would be allowed to last? the criminal justice system in this country is only real function is controlling the poor people. when i went aways aa kid, it taught me nothing. change it around in here! american jail, a cnn film. it is tonight. with me now, academy award winning writer, director, and producer of american jail, roger ross williams. thank you, roger, for being here. great to be here. you know, you told me this project is very personal to you. tell us more about that and why you decided to do it. yeah. well, you know, i wanted to show on the ground the community where i came from and the devastation it s had in my