Hood Quotes - Page 8

• My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

  Wyclef Jean

  Dad, Ghetto, Church

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.

  Robin Hobb

  Real, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.

  Wyclef Jean

  Mean, Warrior, Reality

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

  Rakim

  Eye, Rapper, Realizing

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.

  Rakim

  Rap, Athlete, Kids

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

  Carl Sagan

  Issues, Car, World

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• I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Football, Running, Fighting

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Men, Robins

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• MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.

  Bocafloja

  Talking, Mtv, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.

  Sean Hannity

  Thinking, Should Have, Ornaments

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

  Tyrese Gibson

  Moving, Directors, Bigs

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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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• In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

  Curtis Jackson

  Hollywood, Shows, Show Business

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.

  Fetty Wap

  Kids, College, Daddy

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

  Snoop Dogg

  Drug, Black, Chance

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

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• Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  House, Robins, Maids

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• I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.

  Cornel West

  School, Silence, Trying

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• When you look at men's fashion magazines, you see a lot of well-groomed guys in suits, but very rarely do you see a lot of guys in drop-crotch and hoods with high-tops. It's coming, though, because guys in suits and short hair are beginning to look like they're from another time.

  Ian Astbury

  Fashion, Men, Hair

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I'd take about 40 thousand CDs, and then take about three full vans of people to hit every hood, every mall, and every club. Just hit one city to the next.

  Gorilla Zoe

  Cds, Cities, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.

  John Boyega

  Men, Guy, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

  Gorilla Zoe

  People, Soul, Records

  Source: uproxx.com

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• People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.

  Ice Cube

  Artist, People, Instigators

  "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 have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

  Harold Ramis

  Growing Up, Robins, Three

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that's the great value of it.

  Robert Thurman

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Progress

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.

  Shy Glizzy

  Grandma, Kids, House

  Source: www.vibe.com

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