Top 210 Gang Quotes

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

I’m often the one in my gang of friends who’s worried about how we’re going to get from A to B. I’m the one running around saying, ‘Is somebody going to do something about it?’ Everyone else is bit more chilled.

There were a lot of gangs in high school. Instead of being in a gang, I decided to dance.

I would like to be a gang leader on ‘Sons of Anarchy’ or own a lemonade stand on ‘Boardwalk Empire.’

I had left the James Gang, left Cleveland, and gone to Colorado because Bill Szymczyk was there, and so were a whole bunch of other people I knew.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Some people figure that if they’re part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn’t usually do.

I’m into having a good time and showing people you can have fun. Because for a long time, the West Coast, it wasn’t about having fun. It was about gang banging; it just wasn’t fun no more. So now I’m bringing fun back.

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

There’s nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you’re singing your heart out on a new song, and he’s going, ‘When are they going to do ‘Me and My Gang?”

When you meet a new woman who does stand-up, it is instantly like, ‘Yes! In the gang’. Because you know the logistics of the job: they travel a lot, it’s lonely in dressing rooms, you know that they have bad gigs. That means they don’t have to prove themselves to me.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that’s new enough that people aren’t comfortable with it at first.

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that’s what happens at Homeboy Industries.

I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

When I finished ‘True History of the Kelly Gang,’ I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.

If you call ‘Rapper’s Delight’ an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree with you. Not because they came out in ’79 or ’80, but because in 2002, that’s still the way Hank and Mike rhyme.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they’re all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don’t care as much about those things anymore.

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they’re willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They’re not all gang bangers.

‘Free the Gang,’ that’s my favorite song because it’s so real. All my music is real, it’s authentic, but it’s something about that song that I love.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

My parents are actors, and I’m the oldest of my siblings – I have three younger sisters and a brother who’s my best friend. We’re a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We’re a rambunctious gang!

Cold weather probably played a bigger role in bringing back the hat, but sadly, the hat common to New Jersey guidos, South Carolina rednecks, Idaho potato farmers and Los Angeles gang bangers is the ubiquitous ‘tractor hat,’ which is derived from the cheap baseball style cap with the adjustable plastic tab.

Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.

No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he’s always fleeing something. He’s not being pulled; he’s being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

In ‘The Hate U Give,’ I play Big Mav’, who was incarcerated for a number of years and is raising three children. He was a gang member but reformed himself, and he’s trying to empower his children, help them understand the best way to keep out of trouble.

It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

I’ve been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.

Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.

I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

There was something about the chemistry of the band and we would feed off each other. It was a gang of girls unleashed.

I’ve been sequencing all of my albums, from any Gang Starr stuff to Jeru to Group Home, all of it. I pay a lot of attention to that and really always have. I’ve even helped sequence friend’s projects.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, ‘Wow. This is fun.’

It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It’s a symptom, not a problem.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Allowing illegal immigrants that are gang members and criminals with COVID to enter the U.S. and receive citizenship is a slap in the face to the American people and the rule of law.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas – four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.

I like life on the road. It’s a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you’re in a motorcycle gang.

Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed to give him a gang of henchmen to work with him. The idea occurred to me, let’s put in a female henchperson, because that seemed like a fun variation on the regular big thug guys.

If you call ‘Rapper’s Delight’ an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree with you. Not because they came out in ’79 or ’80, but because in 2002, that’s still the way Hank and Mike rhyme.

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.

Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

What law enforcement will tell you is that in a terrorist act or even an act of people who are involved in crime, such as a drug gang, that they tend to get their weapons illegally.