Hood Motivational Quotes :
1. “I grew up with pretty much nothing – in the hood, the ghetto – whatever you want to call it.”
– Deshaun Watson
2. “If you’re a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.”
– Lil Baby
3. “When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that’s not famous, that’s what inspires me.”
– Dave East
5. “I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.”
6. “For myself, I’m still little Joanna from the hood – from a small town in Poland, and I’m still having my goals, my dreams.”
– Joanna Jedrzejczyk
7. “I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.”
– Tom Waits
8. “Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.”
– Charles Dickens
9. “The ‘hood don’t really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.”
– Fat Joe
10. “My spiritual practice reminds me of what’s really real, what’s really hood.”
– RuPaul
11. “I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.”
– Young Dolph
12. “When I was a kid, my aunt snuck us into see ‘Boyz n the Hood.”
– Nnamdi Asomugha
13. “Mt. Hood is still one of my favorites for its sun, warmth, and slushy, forgiving conditions.”
– Gretchen Bleiler
14. “I think I’m make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I’m just make everybody proud.”
– Roddy Ricch
15. “The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.”
16. “I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.”
– Princess Nokia
17. “I’m working on this documentary. It’s called ‘Walking Home With Baby,’ and when I say ‘Walking Home With Baby,’ it’s a hood in Memphis. This is where I come from. This is my hood in Memphis – the South of Memphis.”
– Moneybagg Yo
18. “I took it upon myself to give back to my ‘hood.”
– Jay Rock
19. “In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.”
– Norm Dicks
20. “I’m from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I’m OK.”
– Jessie Vargas
21. “I’m born in a hood, a humble hood, in Tijuana.”
– Brandon Moreno
22. “I’ve been shot at. I lived in the hardest ‘hood and the best.”
– Sisqo
23. “I can’t let myself down. I can’t let my hood down, my area down.”
– Patrick Beverley
24. “The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.”
– Stan Freberg
25. “I think ‘Long Live the Kane’ was pretty much a real boxed-in mindset with me just doing what I represented in the hood.”
– Big Daddy Kane
26. “I can walk in the ‘hood with my jewelry on. Everybody can’t say they can do that.”
– Sisqo
27. “As we say in the hood, I’m a stoop kid.”
– Michael K. Williams
28. “I’ve always been adventurous – my wife calls me ‘the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter’ – if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.”
– Paul Wall
29. “If I’m in the ‘hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.”
– DJ Khaled
30. “What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.”
– Kirk Franklin
31. “I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.”
– Goldlink
32. “If I wanted to make it out of the hood, which I did, and do something fulfilling with my life then I needed a job that paid me a lot of money. Coincidentally, I found that job being a glamour model.”
– Keeley Hazell
33. “Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the ‘hood.”
– Gucci Mane
34. “I ain’t expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous – ‘hood famous. I ain’t expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.”
– Lil Durk
35. “I like to go back to Memphis, where I started it. I might sit in the hood for three days just putting myself back there.”
– Moneybagg Yo
36. “When I started going to middle school, all my friends were from my hood and were like, ‘Listen to Nas and 50 Cent.”
– Nav
37. “When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me – the hood fame – just to get people’s attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.”
– Moneybagg Yo
38. “When I first started snowboarding, it was something that was only really done in the winter. Mount Hood in Oregon was the magical exception.”
– Gretchen Bleiler
39. “We need a governor strong enough to take us to our full potential. Jim Hood won’t, but I will.”
– Tate Reeves
40. “In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.”
– Carl Hart
41. “Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my ‘hood, and people leave me alone; it’s nice.”
– Lars Mikkelsen
42. “I’m from L.A. I grew up in the ‘hood.”
– Omarion
43. “International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.”
– Angus Deaton
44. “I always try and think about what the ‘hood would say when I do things.”
– Redman
45. “Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.”
– Gloria Steinem
46. “Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.”
– Chamillionaire
47. “House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don’t care if you’re the most hood gangbanger – you understand house.”
– BJ the Chicago Kid
48. “I got married at 18 after dating my boyfriend for about a year. It was quick, I know. My husband joined the Army, and I thought I’d go to college. But we moved to Fort Hood for his job with no money, not even a car.”
– Anna Todd
49. “I stand out a little bit with my hair, so I make sure I wear a hood!
– Leroy Sane
50. “I was a very cocky and unlikable young comic. But I came from the hood, and that’s what I learned.”
– Carlos Mencia
51. “The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.”
– Marshall McLuhan
52. “I’m still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood – just regular.”
– Tierra Whack
53. “In my hood, I was always with the older guys.”
– Shy Glizzy
54. “There is nothing like the rumble of a dual-piped American car with something under the hood.”
– George Pelecanos
55. “I’m always going to be a hood chick. I like street clothes.”
– Tulisa
56. “Whatever woman I love… I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she’s gotten have respect for my mother.”
– Astro
57. “I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.”
– Carl Hart
58. “I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood’s men.”
– Kevin Whately
59. “Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.”
– Queen Latifah
60. “I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they’re people, and they have lives, too.”
– Manny Montana
61. “DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.”
– David Ulevitch
62. “I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the ‘hood.”
– Wendy Raquel Robinson
63. “I love Irvine. That’s my ‘hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It’s in my comfort zone.”
– Justin Chon
64. “As of late, ‘Boyz n the Hood’ really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first time I saw a true reflection of me, my neighborhood and my surroundings.”
– Wendy Raquel Robinson
65. “I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.”
– Young Buck
66. “There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.”
– John Boyega
67. “Faced with the way the system does you in the ‘hood sometimes, if you don’t literally get out, your chances are slim. You’ll definitely die mentally. You’ll pretty much die physically.”
– Lupe Fiasco
68. “The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that’s fairly familiar territory to me.”
– Scott McCloud
69. “You seen my shows; I bring the ‘hood out.”
– Young Jeezy
70. “As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn’t from school, it was the ‘hood. The influences of the ‘hood are very powerful.”
– Junior Seau
71. “Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.”
– Mathieu Kassovitz
72. “I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.”
– Bill Nighy
73. “I don’t have the proportions for ‘hood hot.”
– Amanda Seales
74. “Hood Rich’ was super important to Cash Money.”
– Mannie Fresh
75. “With me, I always try to give my all to my hood, put my hood on my skin, man. I love it.”
– Mase
78. “I like staying in the hood.”
– Redman
79. “I thought that once you get success, your job was the ‘Robin Hood’ situation.”
– Sisqo
80. “In the hood, there are no workshop classes and internships.”
– Deon Cole
81. “The hood always got my back.”
– Jay Rock
82. “I had one foot in the hood, one foot in the middle class.”
– Sisqo
83. “When you walk in your home you don’t have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They’ll try you.”
84. “It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.”
85. “As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That’s the only way out the hood sometimes.”
86. “The wolf said, “You know, my dear, it isn’t safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone.” Red Riding Hood said, “I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way.”
87. “Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it’s no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn’t want to fight always leaves with a black eye.”
88. “In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody’s music.”
89. “I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes.”
90. “If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.”
