Jim Jones Quotes

Jim Jones gives earnest, gritty reflections on hardship and a desire to comfort others.

16 quotes

1. My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home.

2. The young preacher once threw his Bible to the floor and yelled at his associates, 'Too many people are looking at this instead of looking at me!'

3. 'I'm not hostile.'

4. We were about to board the planes for the flight back to the United States. Jim Jones didn't want us to leave, at least not alive. A tractor trailer loaded with men armed with shotguns and rifles pulled up and opened fire on us at that airstrip. Congressman Ryan was gunned down, having been shot 40 times. The first and only congressman in the history of this country to be assassinated during the line of duty. I was shot five times and left to bleed on that airstrip for 22 hours. Back at Jonestown, over 900 people lost their lives in a mass murder and suicide that night. This is what I awoke to on that long day. I was 28 years old, and I was waiting to die. I laid awake all night fearing some of the gunmen would come back and finish us off. Time passed, and local Guyanese people offered me rum to try and get me through the night. I had a lot of time to think. I promised God that if I lived, I would make every day count. I promised that I would make something out of my life if I was allowed to keep my life. Well, here I am. I have chosen a career as a public servant. One, I hope many of you will contemplate as you move forward in your lives.

5. We standin on couches, a couple of women (Hey baby). We was ballin hard it was just the ninth inning (Early).

6. I keep the nine mili laser tag pal condo in Miami that's my favorite pad watchin' Rondo versus Miami he just made a ass.

7. F.T.W fuck the world, Drinkin 40's got us fucked up till we earl, In this hustlers world.

8. This how you ball if you a major guy (whoa). With alcohol and a hazy high, the city lights in the jaded sky.

9. Shot out to Taft where them killas is made. We was out on the Ave. young dealin' that gay. Tryin' to get cash pumpin' crills to get payed. Alcohol in my glass blunt filled up with haze.

10. To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

11. God forgive me for my worldly ways. Hit the street at a early age tryn to come up off the pearly yay. The late nights to the early days all a nigga knew is street life. Young G's beneth the street lights try not to catch street strikes.

12. I only fear the law so fuck a man wit a badge (fuck the police!) and I'm tryin to duck the law dog from gettin indicted.

13. I ain't Mexican, but I'll stretch your man, yes I am a fuckin' vato loco, I went from the pot with cocoa, To the block with cocoa.

14. The chain frozen, big chunk jewelry (STUNTIN). White girls say he's all semi cool (What else?). But you don't want to cost him cause he got a short fuse.

15. So when I bleep shorty bleep back. Louis Vuitton Belt where I'm keep all the heat strapped.

16. Bitches stepping on my nice sneakers with One hand in the sky and the other hand was on her thigh.