Neighborhood Problems Quotes

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.

There is a lot of talent and a lot of good things happening and coming from Molenbeek, but unfortunately, it has had to deal with a very, very long time of being ignored, really, and it was very easy, even in the neighbourhood where I grew up, to just fall off the grid, and nobody would notice it.

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.