Frank Ocean Quotes

I'm not a gangster, bro.

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

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

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

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

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

A handbook for gangsters.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

If you see my record I'm not a stereotype killer striker.

I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.

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

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.

A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.