Frank Sinatra Quotes

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

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

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 am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

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

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

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.

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.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

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

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

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

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

We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.

I grew up in the Bronx.

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 grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.

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

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.