Lil Durk Quotes

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother.

I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

The number one cause of poverty in the United States is kids having children before they are married.

In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

During my last days at Florida State, 65 to 70 percent of my boys did not have a daddy at home. They're raised by mommas. Thank God for them mommas, or grandmommas. Or big sister or aunt.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.

Kids who are the victims of broken families are more likely to end up in poverty, rehab, or jail. I'm a Republican, but I respect President Obama for setting the right example and addressing this problem.

Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends.