Snoop Dogg Quotes

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.

When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do anything.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

In my hood, I was always with the older guys.

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.

I was raised inside the gang culture.

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

Gangs have evolved. The stereotypical gang member covered in tattoos and wearing colors does not really exist any more. There's this fear that it could be any kid, but by any kid, that means any Latino kid.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

The truth is that those who join gangs - more often than not they are young men in their later teens - often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.

As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.