Hood Quotes · Page 5

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

— Trey Songz

I like to mix the street look with classy and sexy. I call it 'hood chic.'

— Justine Skye

“What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?”

— Supa Nova Slom

For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

— Jonathan Groff

If you're gonna take the mickey I'll just put my hood back on.

— Donna Noble

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

— Gloria Steinem

I really, to be honest, thought baseball was my ticket out of the hood.

— Rich Homie Quan

I keep it own hood, And I will never change, Never go hollywood, Let it be understood, That I'll be in the…

— Maino

Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a…

— DJ Premier

Most superhero shows are set in an alternative universe. 'Black Lightning' is literally in the hood. He's going inside of the ghetto…

— Nafessa Williams

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The…

— Junior Seau

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer…

— Brad Pitt

The facts are, when anybody says anything about me selling out, you don't see me in mainstream because I didn't sell out.…

— Sisqo

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it…

— Shaggy

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's…

— Colum McCann

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in the area; it's…

— Travis Scott

“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask…

— Trevor Noah

I live in a neighborhood where you can't walk around the block without running away or getting shot...you can't wear red or…

— Anonymous

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think…

— Jonas Armstrong

As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have…

— Pitbull

In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as…

— Joanne Froggatt

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance…

— Bruce Springsteen

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we…

— Anonymous

Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord…

— Mark Strong

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

— John David Washington

Ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on. Hey! I'm just getting my hood on

— Swizz Beatz

They said I never make it to the top cuz I come from the bottom I'm from the hood where they dont…

— Lil Boosie

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

— Tyrese Gibson

I can't let myself down. I can't let my hood down, my area down.

— Patrick Beverley

When I started going to middle school, all my friends were from my hood and were like, 'Listen to Nas and 50…

— Nav

If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.

— Austin O'Malley

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

— Angus Deaton

And it takes a certain man to teach, to be from the hood but then understand the streets.

— Drake

I've been shot at. I lived in the hardest 'hood and the best.

— Sisqo

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

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

— Steve McQueen