Richard Cabral

In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.

— Richard Cabral

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

— Richard Cabral

There's comes a point when people who have lived a life of crime get tired and want to change.

— Richard Cabral

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was…

— Richard Cabral

I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.

— Richard Cabral

My father figures were all gang members.

— Richard Cabral

When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced…

— Richard Cabral

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

— Richard Cabral

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all…

— Richard Cabral

The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I…

— Richard Cabral

There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out…

— Richard Cabral

Your only true obligation in a gang is to be committed and be there when your brothers need you.

— Richard Cabral

I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They…

— Richard Cabral

I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not…

— Richard Cabral

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

— Richard Cabral

If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we're going to belong to? That's…

— Richard Cabral

There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about…

— Richard Cabral

Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is…

— Richard Cabral

It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point…

— Richard Cabral

When I die I want a child that never met me, to hear were I came from and what I accomplished and…

— Richard Cabral

I remember my first thing was 'CSI: Miami.' I played a Cuban gangster. And that was it. I was like, 'Wow, I…

— Richard Cabral

I didn't grow up with any brothers, but I have my cousins, and I had my good friends, so I know what…

— Richard Cabral

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

— Richard Cabral

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

— Richard Cabral

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the…

— Richard Cabral