Roddy Ricch Quotes

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

I know prisons from the inside.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually, it starts to eat away at you. And if you don't work at yourself mentally or physically or spiritually, eventually you're going to be swallowed up by circumstance.

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Going to prison, for me, was like seeing my death before it happened.

First we pin the convict's badge on him: then we examine his case.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.