There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los…

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

— Kehinde Wiley

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the…

— Ron Finley

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in…

— Warren Moon

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the…

— Kehinde Wiley

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that…

— Jonathan Kozol

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in…

— Ice Cube

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's…

— Bernie Mac

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.

— Spencer Paysinger

You can't be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central near the Black Panthers headquarters and not feel like…

— Kerry James Marshall

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

— Cheech Marin

South Central is just who I am.

— Ice Cube

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

— Ice Cube

I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.

— Baron Davis

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out…

— Spencer Paysinger

I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black…

— Kehinde Wiley