Quotes from Richard Cabral

Your only true obligation in a gang is to be committed and be there when your brothers need you.

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do anything.

There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out in this role.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

I really embrace the person and the life that I came from because that made me who I am today.

I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don't have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.