Gang Life Quotes

My momma didn't clean up floors so I could be a thug... so I could wear my pants down.

When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.

In 'The Hate U Give,' I play Big Mav', who was incarcerated for a number of years and is raising three children. He was a gang member but reformed himself, and he's trying to empower his children, help them understand the best way to keep out of trouble.

So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so I'm waiting for the bullet in the head.

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.

I'm from the same area as Gucci Mane. I stayed off Bouldercrest road. I stayed off Glenwood.

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

When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

I was raised inside the gang culture.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

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

The boys in the hood are always hard.

Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming.