Quotes About Struggle

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

Going away to prison was nothing, I'm just saying, compared to losing my mom.

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.

It's a long story, my life, growing up with my dad, my mom when she died, everything. I had bad moments in my life, my dad going to prison, I had nothing, and that's where I got my motivation.

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty boy. That's how I got into boxing.

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.

I am used to Suge's behavior, most of our relationship was under the shadow of him being in and out of prison and always being in trouble.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read something about in the newspaper - but not me.

When I went through what I was going through in prison, one of the things that was very distracting was the issue that it's a very dangerous environment. Moving through that process, I had to develop such an intense focus that I had to change my character and be someone else.

I was brought up in a council flat in Islington with only an outside lavatory. And there were plenty of kids I knew who later ended up in prison.

I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went through.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

People think the restaurant industry is hard and takes no prisoners, but so does baking, so does retail and so does bus driving. You can't blame your job.