Manny Montana Quotes

I didn't grow up in the worst neighborhood. It wasn't the best either.

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

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

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?

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

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.

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

I grew up in the Bronx.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

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

I am from the ghetto.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

I'm from a rough place: the Bronx.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

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 grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and passing down sneakers until they were unpassable... I simply thought the whole world lived as such, especially in pre-gentrified Williamsburg of the 1980s.

I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then you can live your whole lifetime hearing gunshots all the time.

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.