Ja Rule Quotes
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters
I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.
I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.
As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.
As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.
In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.
We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.
Start before you're ready.Don't prepare, begin.
You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.
Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind.
