- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gang Quotes
Words on loyalty, consequence, and moving past labels.
These gang quotes range from a genuine love of rap culture to the blunt cost of jail time, plus one performer's refusal to accept roles reduced to lazy stereotypes. It pairs naturally with our Crime collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.
- Nov 07, 2020
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
- Bike
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left the San Francisco DA's office, I went down to the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and I was able to try a tremendous amount - very serious cases and working in gang neighborhoods, impoverished neighborhoods - really make a difference and be impactful in those communities.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did a reunion when TV One first launched episodes of 'Living Single'. Every time any of the gang comes through Atlanta, though, we always visit.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn't need to cover other people's songs anymore.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had left the James Gang, left Cleveland, and gone to Colorado because Bill Szymczyk was there, and so were a whole bunch of other people I knew.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020