Birth Quote by ASAP Rocky

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of…

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

— Omarion

I grew up in the 'hood, but it was like growing up in Beverly Hills because there were so many superstars around.

— Metta World Peace

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

— Carl Hart

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Fear and want are subjective; and poverty is the absence of wealth. If it were promised that from the hour of his birth no…

— Isabel Paterson

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

“Let us all say together: "We want to build a green economy strong enough to life people out of poverty. We want to create…

— Van Jones

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds…

— Samuel Johnson

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

— Samuel Johnson

I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have…

— Tupac Shakur

In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap…

— Mekhi Phifer

They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks…

— Skepta

What's good in the hood?

— Vince McMahon

If your thighs look like the hood of a white Toyota minivan after a hailstorm, you aren't juicy.

— Jeff Foxworthy