Compton Quotes

• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Harry Shearer

  School, Years, Two

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Picks, Hard

  "The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett". Book by Elizabeth Sprigge, 1973.

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• It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.

  Arthur H

  Majestic, Unfolding, Difficult

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• Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood.

  Eazy-E

  Brother, Real, Rap

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• You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Vulnerability

  "Kendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad city". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

  Venus Williams

  California, People, Made

  Venus Williams during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 8, 2015.

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• The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

  Henry Rollins

  Military, Kids, Criminals

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• For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

  Arthur Compton

  Men, Majestic, Realization

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• You know, growing up my - you know, I came from Compton, Calif., and, you know, it was a place where a lot of people did come out when a lot of people stayed. So I've been able to see the top and the bottom of life, and I think that balances you if you allow it to and if you remember where you came from.

  Venus Williams

  Growing Up, Thinking, Remember Where You Came

  "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

  Venus Williams

  Mean, Thinking, Next

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beach, Nice, Ghetto

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 1995.

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• Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

  Arthur H

  Confidence, Truth, Discovery

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• For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

  Michel'le

  Men, Mind, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think Straight Outta Compton is one of the greatest biopics, but I am biased on that one, obviously. There are some things the Academy gets wrong and it's important to call them on it. But in other instances, there are simply just better actors. They're doing a better job than they've done, but there's still room for improvement.

  Bun B

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

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• I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my son wanted to go, and they asked us to present Best Hip Hop Group of the Year. You know, we had two records from Compton in there, and it was just like a cool thing to do, and to do with your son, and it was just cool. But we was the first award up, so after I did my thing I just jumped in the car and came on back home.

  Ice Cube

  Home, Son, Years

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Years, California, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you know? A lot of my music revolves around me growing up in Compton. I want to tell a different story that's never been told before, of a good kid in a mad city.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

  Ice Cube

  Beach, Cities, Long

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Ivy, Effort

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Mom, Sibling, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Long, Trying

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.86, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beach, Nice, Ghetto

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus and travel quite a ways to get to an arthouse theater - none of which you're gonna find in black and brown communities - to see anything that was outside of what the studios fed me, and that's not the case anymore.

  Ava DuVernay

  Order, Community, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

  Ava DuVernay

  Remember, Film, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

  Serena Williams

  Dream, Kids, Would Be

  Serena Williams' US Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 7, 2014.

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