South Central Quotes

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

I used to tell my friends, 'Art Blakey is way more gangster than Eazy-E!' I ended up getting my friends into jazz, and all of a sudden there was this little group of kids in the middle of South Central that were all into hard-bop.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

My dad's also a musician, so jazz was always around the house. When I was 11, I developed an interest in it, and he took me to Leimert Park. At that time, it was the artistic hub of L.A., and it was right in South Central. The first concert I went to, I saw Pharoah Sanders at the World Stage club there, which only holds, like, 30 people.

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.