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Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Johnny Cash

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
JOHNNY CASH

Audience Entertainment Greatness Performance Prison
You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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Believe Desperate Frustration Give Up Myself People
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
JOHNNY CASH

Heaven Hell Learning Man Myself Place
It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
JOHNNY CASH

Goodness Hate People Right Yourself
A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
JOHNNY CASH

Feeling Heart Listening Person Right Yourself
I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
JOHNNY CASH

Age Graduation Job Knowledge People Time Yourself
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.
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Appearance Black God Home Hypocrisy Ideas Mindset Myself People Rebel Status
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
JOHNNY CASH

Black Crime Hope Hungry Live Myself Poor Prison Time Victim
I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
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Drug God Growth Myself Satisfaction Soul Try World
I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
JOHNNY CASH

Death Hope Myself Prayer
If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
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Opinion Politics Yourself
The more I learn, the more excited I get.
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Excitement Learning Myself
We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
JOHNNY CASH

Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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Freedom God Myself Prison Soul Wall
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.
JOHNNY CASH

Choice Face Gratitude Hate Life Love Myself Negative Positive Worst
When you sing, you pray twice.
JOHNNY CASH

Prayer Sing Yourself
We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
JOHNNY CASH

Country Equality God Heaven Wasted
It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
JOHNNY CASH

Live Man Reality Tough Yourself
My arms are too short to box with God.
JOHNNY CASH

Fight God Hands Myself
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
JOHNNY CASH

Build Failure Inspirational Motivational Step Stone Yourself
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
JOHNNY CASH

Children Hard Inspirational Music Myself Time
I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Country Flag Freedom Love Myself Praise Right Shoot Weapon Yourself
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
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Children Goodness Man Mom Myself Shoot Son
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
JOHNNY CASH

Book Excitement Learning Myself Novel Reading Study
You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
JOHNNY CASH

Be Yourself Identity Reality Self Love Yourself
Life and love go on, let the music play.
JOHNNY CASH

Life Love Music Play
When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
JOHNNY CASH

Death Hands Man Myself Remember Right Work

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