#streets

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#clothes #dress #go #i #mask

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.' ↗

— Stephen Carter

#always #backgrounds #black #character #even

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide. ↗

— Young Buck

#came #doing #got #hood #i

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#front #hands #holding #holding hands #i

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas

The streets were dark with something more than night. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#more #night #something #streets #than

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #coaches #country #deliver #facilities

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#caught #coming #did #food #good

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#course #did #endlessly #essence #friends

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#different perspective #drive #how #how weird #i