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CORNELIUS: I was just facing, like, 30 years last year.
IYANLA: In the penitentiary?
CORNELIUS: Yeah.
IYANLA: For?
CORNELIUS: Drugs. And the process of me,
you know, fighting that case, I was, you know,
I was locked up for almost a year.
And I just felt, like, God put me in a predicament to
where I needed time to just see that, you know, you can't keep doing this,
like, I'm in--I have been in the street selling drugs since I was 14 years old.
Everybody in my family, you know, sold drugs, used drugs.
IYANLA: You put your life and your freedom at risk.
CORNELIUS: Yeah. And I don't look at it like I was a horrible person.
I just did what I had to do to survive.
IYANLA: You got to remember who you are, baby.
Somebody bore a whip and picked cotton and tobacco so that you could be here.
Because you are the one, the survivor of those who chose to survive,
you are the heir and they paid a debt for you.
Don't put that in jeopardy.
IYANLA VO: LIKE SO MANY MEN, CORNELIUS IS STRUGGLING BECAUSE
HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO HE IS.
EACH OF THESE MEN WILL NEED TO TAKE A LONG
HARD LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO
BETTER UNDERSTAND WHO THEY ARE.
THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN START TO MAKE
BETTER CHOICES MOMENT BY MOMENT BY MOMENT.
IYANLA: You're not them. And you have absolutely no idea who that is.
And you keep trying to prove he's unlovable.
That's why they left him. He's unlovable.
So you have to give him a new identity.