- Clique
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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
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
- Quite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite shy as a child. My sisters were the gang leaders, my brothers were the enforcers and I was a tag-a-long.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started coming to the U.S., they were offering me only the typical stereotypical roles: the druggard, the criminal, the gang member, or in the best-case scenario, the gardener or the cook. I was fed up with all these roles that were always the same. And I promised I would try to change the image of Latinos in Hollywood.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio hit records. 'Make a Gang Starr track and we'll write our lyrics to that,' they told me. They couldn't stress it enough.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020