Bronx Quote by David Wilkerson

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

— Richard Baxter

I wanted to be a gangsta from birth, not because of the music but moreso what I was seeing, what my uncles were doing.…

— Freddie Gibbs

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

— Gerald Chertavian

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

— Jackie Coogan

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it…

— Daniel Jacobs

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store…

— Noah Baumbach

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the…

— Isaac Hayes

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be…

— Jonathan Tucker

It was the Baptists who preached a kind of Social Gospel that captured my attention and imagination.

— Raphael Warnock

I was raised inside the gang culture.

— Kendrick Lamar

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

— Amy Grant