Quote by Martin Amis Download Open image ““barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically”” — Martin Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“if you ain't from no barrio, then you aint born."-a ten year old boy” — Luiz J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.” — Carter F. Smith Copy Share Image
Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“Besides, it ain’t an accident that gangs are made up of young men who have nothing. We value our lives little enough to risk… — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang. — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
