South Central Quotes

20 quotes by 16 authors

If Iâ€™m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washingtonâ€™s promises of a… — Bryant Gumbel
I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always… — Xzibit
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped,… — Larry Niven
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los… — Danny Glover
I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence. — Antoine Fuqua
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them… — Forest Whitaker
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day. — Ice Cube
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
Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my… — Ice Cube
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 you… — Jonathan Kozol
Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial Council. Sure, I… — Rachel Vincent
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South… — Warren Moon
I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to… — Brandon Adams
My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me… — Karyn Parsons
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems… — Gary Webb
Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A. Today was a good day. — Ice Cube
I was working at Home Depot just to pay the bills, and the only audition I could get was Baywatch. The day of the audition,… — Seann William Scott

Who Wrote These South Central Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 20 South Central Quotes as follows: