Tracy Morgan Quotes

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 don't like to open my mouth a lot because, I'll be honest with you, man, I come from the streets.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

Mike Tyson and I came up together in the streets, and being around people like him, I learned what goes on behind the scenes.

I am from the ghetto.

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

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 understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.

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.

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you're living in the hood, you don't live this life where you're crying every day, downtrodden every day.

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider myself lucky. When I was aged 11, in 1998, Dad moved us to a suburban area from what was a ghetto area. It gave me a chance of survival.

I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

When people hear my music, they ain't really hearing about no shiny stuff, the glamorous life. They're going to hear that gritty, slum.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.