Sistahs on Lit chat with Author Damion King

I was born and raised in Atlanta Georgia as a problem child, who got lost in the drug game and violence.  I am thirty four years old with two children with a genuine and solid support team that doesn’t even add up to the amount of fingers I have.  However, I have just completed serving a fifteen year prison sentence in Georgia.  Normally my incarceration would be looked upon as my biggest failure, but I must admit that my incarceration has been more of a gift to me than a curse.  Prison for me, as a state institution, was not rehabilitative without me seeking a higher learning through self rehabilitation on every level.  Fortunately, by force prison has molded me into the Epitome of Masculinity that I have become over time.  Even though I have missed the most important years of my life trapped inside a foreign and distant world prison is where I pursued, obtained, studied, practiced and performed on a variety of levels that has allowed me to achieve and reach heights of unknown possibilities that continue to amaze me.  Despite the stagnating obstacles and life threatening situations that I have experienced, endured, survived and overcame along my journey of life. I have been blessed with the opportunity to win win win for a greater cause.  Failure is not an option! Not only did I enlightened myself behind the walls in ways that I wouldn’t have been able to had I not went to prison but now I’m going corporate….. From convicted felon to author to CEO.