Quotes About Community

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.

The hood always got my back.

I always try and think about what the 'hood would say when I do things.

Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It's crazy!

I can't let myself down. I can't let my hood down, my area down.

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

It's important to love in hip hop.

I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me - white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of something really exciting. I was a part of it as a consumer.

When I came out I hoped it would empower others - and it has.

But I would not have been the leader that I hoped to be if I hadn't put my name forward to represent this community. You have to be daring.

Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.

I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called 'the beloved community.'

What kind of a society will we see in 2025? I am hopeful that it will be a 'prevention-based society.'

To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.

Flint is not a hopeless city and I mean that.