Hood Quotes · Page 4

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

— Young Buck

Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

— Dr. Dre

It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.

— Drake

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

— Steven Crowder

In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

— John Singleton

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

— Lil Durk

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

— RuPaul

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Being a young kid from the hood in Paris, growing up in poverty and then scoring the goal that took Chelsea to…

— Demba Ba

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any…

— Terry Pratchett

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam,…

— Princess Nokia

Growing up as a Brit, Arthur and Merlin and Camelot, and just the idea of it, is embedded in the culture and…

— Chris Chibnall

Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998.…

— Paul Wall

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least…

— Anonymous

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim.…

— Lupe Fiasco

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a…

— Anjelah Johnson

Allegedly Jesus went through the town and spread the word and the word was God. You know what I mean? And Sean…

— Sean Price

I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release;…

— Wale

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,…

— Jaron Lanier

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

On the real though, just being so young, then coming out of the hood and making it is just crazy to see.…

— Young Jeezy

In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in…

— Michelle Alexander

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

— Young Dolph

In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.

— Carl Hart

At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John's, I was fresh out the 'hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.

— Metta World Peace

Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.

— Astro

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just…

— Tierra Whack

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

— Red Buttons

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

— Wyclef Jean

We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.

— Brock Pierce

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

— Rick Ross

If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

— DJ Khaled

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

— Jessie Vargas

Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

— Clark Blaise

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

— Anthony Marra

Shyt yu kan take me out da hood bt yu kan neva take da hood out of me strait up ;) diz…

— Dat Bish

In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.

— Norm Dicks

What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.

— Kirk Franklin