Ramon Rodriguez Quotes

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

What you learned on the streets of Brooklyn will be a damn sight more helpful to your president than anything you learned at Harvard.

There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.

I'm from the street. We all know that.

Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That's Rule No. 1.

The streets helps you a lot in music, cause it let's you know that you can't trust nobody and that nobody's gonna wait for you. You can't just sit there with dope in your pocket and think that people are gonna come to you. You gotta put the product out there.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know.

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.

I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

It's the African-American experience. You've got to wear different masks. When you're in the hood, if you stand out, you get picked on for being weak. Sometimes you have to hide your intelligence. In front of your boys, you might put on a bit of bravado, be a little bit tougher.

I went to the school of hard knocks.