Street Gang Quotes

Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

Never piss off a gangster.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.

A rock-and-roll group needed a name that fit criteria in three areas: It had to be great for a bowling team; it had to be great for a gang; and it had to be great for a rock-and-roll group. So we called ourselves Dion and the Belmonts.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.