Bullets Quote by Walter Winchell

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

— Ruby Dee

“The white mobs followed blacks into the surrounding forests and marshes and shot many victims in the back as they fled. Several bodies were…

— E.R. Bills

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the…

— Quincy Jones

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

— Pam Grier

“The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.”

— Carter F. Smith

As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I…

— Steve Miller

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

— Adama Traore

I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang.…

— John Marston

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to…

— Malcolm X

“CONFESSIONS OF A GANGSTER A former gang member talks about racial violence from way back in the eighties. “It started out innocently,” Jones, 39,…

— Colin Flaherty

The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas. If you ever knew little kids when they were little.. They always wanted to be cowboys…

— MC Hammer