Streets Quotes
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In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.
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Middle-class drug use isn’t harmless. It fuels the gangs unleashing violence on our streets.
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We march in the streets, but we will also march to the voting booth in November.
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As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
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The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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Remember the street car cannot turn out.
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Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
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I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
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Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
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Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.
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The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.
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Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.
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I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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I love discovering tiny streets.
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Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
