Don McCullin Quotes

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

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

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I don't walk the mean streets.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.

I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.