My name is Octavio, this is for my parents' house, my name is Charles Johnson.
Due to the temptations and hardship of Skid Row, I became homeless and it's just been
something else.
Opportunities for housing and the state drug frame are here, but at the same time, right
outside the gate is drugs, prostitution, racketeering, there's no labor pools down here.
So in order to make money, you have to hustle.
We don't have clothes, we don't have heights, we don't bring down tools, so it's a blessing.
I've given everything that I've possessed, besides my life, because of addiction.
You have to depend on people to feed you, people to clothe you, places to sleep.
There's a lot of help down here, but for those that are caught in addiction, there will not
be no changes.
I wish that I could take back everything that I've done, but this is the result of it.
Take it from me, do not depend on drugs to solve your problems.
Dallas Rose.
My name is DeMott Webb.
I had a recent death in my family last year, my mom passed away.
I know how it is when someone, definitely, they turn your back on you and there's nothing
to hope or anything.
Hello, my name is Oscar Jimenez.
I've been in and out of prison so many times and up in gangs and involved in all kinds
of drugs.
You know what I mean?
That I came into a point in my life that, hey, I got tired of being tired.
I'm at the Los Angeles Mission and I've been there for nine months and it's changed my
life.
I've been a cold-blooded alcoholic from being violent too and I didn't believe in God and
not now.
I do.
I definitely believe in God now.
I stay in a program here.
It's called Ali Mission.
I mean, for me, it's been a blessing and you can see all the need out here, all the hurt
that people have been through and you can see how people have given up.
They usually sleep in this and sleep in this tent, but they don't want to help.
They rather do drugs, spend their money on cracker or drinking.
I had to get rid of it.
I don't care attitude.
You're going to be trapped out here if you don't use the resources that God has given
you to make them better, try to make something better out of yourself.
I am somebody.
Just as well as you are.
You know what I mean?
Don't take that negativity into your life and keep it there.
I mean, always consider positive thoughts.
You know what I mean?
That there is a future and there is a better way.
If I can change, anybody can change.
My name is Ralph O'Larders.
This reminds me of all the tent living in Vietnam when I was there.
It was kind of degrading, but sometimes things can't be corrected.
That's my opinion.
Don't sit around and wait for something to happen and get out and make something happen.
If you wanted to work for it, it doesn't come from you.
I'm not giving them nothing.
If you don't know about it, give me nothing for it.
I understand God loves to cheer for people, but also God blesses the child that has his
own.
So, get out and get your own.
Let's do it.
Good.
It's Lord basically.
But, loves are relatively, rather than I say nothing, I rather somebody else depict
that for themselves.
You know, I don't want to, I'm not going to give, I'm not going to give nobody.
That's the answer to the test.
I can't do it.
You got it.
All your life.
Figure it out.
Hopefully you don't waste your whole life trying to figure it out.
Life sucks my mind, though.
It's fair, it's not fair.
Life's the only thing that's fair.
You can love people.
You can care about people.
You don't care about and love people who don't want it.
You give it to those who earn it, who deserve it, who believe in it, who's not going to
get it, who's not going to get it, who's not going to get it, who's not going to get it,
who's not going to get it.
My name is Terry.
I'd like to read this poem to you.
Well, it's not actually a poem, it's a letter to myself.
As I sit here in this TV room, I realize how much of a coward I've been all my life
because of fear, I won't take the next step.
I won't do what I have to do to succeed.
Every time I get close to the finish line, I stop.
Why don't I finish?
That's why I didn't finish school, that's why I didn't get my GED, that's why I didn't
marry the woman that I love because I've been a coward.
I've messed up my life all because of cowardice.
Cowardice steps on faith.
I have no faith in self, I have no faith in others, I have no faith in God.
For God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
But do I believe this?
God help me.
If I truly am a child of God and a brother of Jesus, who can come against me?
Jesus loves me, but do I believe this?
Jesus loves me, but do I believe this?
Jesus loves me, but do I believe this?
Jesus loves me, but do I believe this?
