Welcome to Hood Quotes, where the raw essence of urban life and culture finds expression through words. In the streets, amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday life, lies a language all its own an amalgamation of grit, resilience, and authenticity. These quotes encapsulate the spirit of the hood, offering insights into its struggles, triumphs, and unique perspective on the world.
From the alleys of Brooklyn to the boulevards of Compton, the hood serves as a melting pot of diverse voices and experiences. It’s a place where survival instincts are honed, dreams are forged, and bonds are formed in the crucible of adversity. Through these quotes, we delve into the heart of the hood, exploring its complexities, contradictions, and unyielding spirit.
Below, you’ll find a collection of quotes that capture the essence of the hood. Feel free to draw inspiration from them, whether you’re seeking motivation, reflection, or simply a glimpse into a world unlike any other. Copy them, overlay them onto images, or transform them with stylish fonts the choice is yours. Let these quotes serve as a testament to the resilience and power of the hood, a testament to its enduring legacy in the tapestry of urban life.
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
I did ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Adulthood,’ and that’s what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do ‘hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying ‘Yo Blood’ and beating up others in the street. Noel Clarke
Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York – Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing ‘Blazing Saddles;’ when he left New York he started doing stuff like ‘Robin Hood Men In Tights’ – he was in L.A. too long. He lost the edge. Artie Lange
The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old. Kendrick Lamar
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. Mike Huckabee
I’m 5-foot-5, and I’ll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance. Daniel Radcliffe
After a show, I’ll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up ‘hood, and they say that now they realize there’s someone out there who thinks like they do. Michael Franti
In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It’s a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In ‘Robin Hood’, you have more artistic license – it’s all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable. Joanne Froggatt
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra’s hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Jim Woodring
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
DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet. David Ulevitch
When I did ‘Boyz N The Hood’, I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. Ice Cube
I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate… if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished… but I’m not going there… I don’t have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out – just listen. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan
As we say in the hood, I’m a stoop kid. Michael K. Williams
What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time. Snoop Dogg
I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Rama of the Jungle’. Stephen Lang
‘New Jack City’ and ‘Boyz ‘N the Hood’ are realities, but movies like ‘Strictly Business’ are realities, too. Tommy Davidson
When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman’s and it didn’t bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. Kevin Costner
If I’m in the ‘hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken. DJ Khaled
Ice Cube’s the coolest dad. A lot of parents – a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad’s cool… You know, I was born in 1991. That’s when ‘Boyz n the Hood’ came out. So I’ve always see him on TV. I don’t see everybody else’s dad, you know. So I’ve always had a sense of, you know, he’s cool. He’s in the light. O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation. Stan Freberg
I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD. Nipsey Hussle
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
The hood always got my back. Jay Rock
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‘hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. Eminem
The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn’t do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood. Eugene Jarecki
They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It’s got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood. Jermaine Dupri
I have a former Baltimore City police officer’s uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force. Daryl Davis
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody. Vincent Cassel
You can scroll through my iTunes and I’ve got everything. I’ve got Ace Hood, Alt-J, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Beanie Sigel, the Beatles, Beth Hart, Big Sean, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Chief Keef, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, OutKast, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Smiths, and the list goes on from there. Mike Will Made It
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. Bear Grylls
Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse – tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer. Jose Serrano
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
I, and others like me – trap stars – we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat. Young Jeezy
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. Paul Newman
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
People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I’m like, ‘Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That’s it.’ There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white. Anjelah Johnson
I don’t want to be in somebody else’s movie, and then they make all the money. I’ve gotten offers to do the movies, but I won’t sell myself short and be in somebody else’s movie, like ‘Boyz N the Hood.’ I don’t think I woulda done that. Eazy-E
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we’d sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling. Brad Pitt
In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the ‘Willy Wonka of the Hood.’ Jidenna
I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood. Young Dolph
Probably more than half my life, I’ve thought from a trap mindset, a hood mind frame in the way I was moving. Yo Gotti
My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing ‘The Bill,’ I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as ‘Training Day’ or ‘Boyz n the Hood.’ So to have worked with some of the greats I’ve admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me. Aml Ameen
Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my ‘hood, and people leave me alone; it’s nice. Lars Mikkelsen
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. Lascelles Abercrombie
If we don’t heal our own hood, who will? Nelly
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide. Young Buck
I was at my mom’s house in the hood my whole life. I didn’t get to see L.A. until I was 26. Nav
I’m probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the ‘hood. That’s the biggest thing, that I’ve been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities. Queen Latifah
The ‘American Idol’ and ‘X Factor’ shows, they’re great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don’t get the attention, that don’t have the money to make themselves representable. Snoop Dogg
Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in ‘Robin Hood,’ so he’s very good at that. James Nesbitt
When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood. Stan Lee
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six. Travis Scott
I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight ‘method’ actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape – it is quite terrifying. But I really wanted to talk to him because ‘Robin Hood’ was one of my favourite films. Tom Felton
The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game. Pete Rose
In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem. Norm Dicks
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven’t left their ‘hood, haven’t left their area, their corner of the world. They don’t read. They’ve never left their house. Estelle
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. Helen Dunmore
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
Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent. Mathieu Kassovitz
Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was ‘Planet Rock,’ and the other had no lyrics – it was called ‘Numbers,’ from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the ‘hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time. Queen Latifah
There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie. Ice Cube
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
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s almost like casting spells. I don’t mean necessarily in the flighty, ‘I’m going to go buy a cloak with a hood now’ way. Feist
When you think of Grimm’s fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They’re so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think about five-year-olds reading that stuff. Even ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is a really freaky story. Grandma is gobbled up by a wolf, and the wolf is going to eat the girl. That’s scary stuff. Denis O’Hare
Matangi’s mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the ‘hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. M.I.A.
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it’s just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the ‘hood don’t need no private jet. Chuck D
I’m from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I’m OK. Jessie Vargas
I won’t forget the hood. I won’t forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. Pau Gasol
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
I grew up with pretty much nothing – in the hood, the ghetto – whatever you want to call it. Deshaun Watson
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power. Gloria Steinem
My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich. Keith O’Brien
One of my earliest inspirations was the ‘Allan-a-Dale’ character played by Elton Hayes in the 1954 movie ‘The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men.’ He was a wandering minstrel with his guitar. Denny Laine
She’s like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything’s pink. She makes a certain move that’s ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I’m evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She’s fearless, and I love her. Laurieann Gibson
HATE, even if it’s making money. is an underground movie, that’s how it was made. It’s a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it’s about the whole of society and not just about the hood. Mathieu Kassovitz
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire. Roma Downey
It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win. Lil B
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
Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from ?3 to ?50 on a T-shirt, but I’ve bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming ‘Robin Hood’ in Hungary called Scotch And Soda. Jonas Armstrong
The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. Jon Meacham
Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje – these are all old friends from my early 20s. Clark Blaise
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that’s fairly familiar territory to me. Scott McCloud
I got my first real job, one that didn’t involve wearing a hairnet or bending over the hood of a wet car with a towel in my hand, in the early ’90s working for CBS Records. While there, I started my first of several rock bands and eventually wrote my first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, ‘Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer.’ Jen Sincero
Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, ‘I remember, I remember the house where I was born.’ I don’t even know what mine looked like! Spike Milligan
I can’t let myself down. I can’t let my hood down, my area down. Patrick Beverley
I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat. David Farr
I like to mix the street look with classy and sexy. I call it ‘hood chic.’ Justine Skye
Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It’s a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You’re acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I’m a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life. Riz Ahmed
Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn’t be at the front shouting about it. He’d be the one you don’t expect. Jonas Armstrong
You seen my shows; I bring the ‘hood out. Young Jeezy
Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the ‘hood. Gucci Mane
In ‘Boyz N the Hood,’ every female character was three-dimensional. John Singleton
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. Mike Davidson
If I can go through what I’ve been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that’s reality. Master P
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
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
I’m looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America’s hottest hood artists. Snoop Dogg
I grew up on the west side of Detroit – 6 mile and Wyoming – so I was really in the ‘hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the ‘hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided. Big Sean