Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

Living in Rio is dangerous sometimes.

I've got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald's and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

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 live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

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

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.

Knife crime devastates communities.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.