Angeles Quote by Miguel

When I first arrived in Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to try to break into television, I couldn't believe how segregated it…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

— Ross Kemp

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been…

— Bob Filner

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and…

— Dave Reichert

But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco…

— Richard Rodriguez

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent…

— Henry Rollins

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

— William Gibson

I grew up in Long Beach during a transitional phase. It's a lot better now, but there was a time where it was the…

— Giveon

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

I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the…

— Forest Whitaker

There were gangs in the school I went to. They fought each other constantly.

— Adama Traore