Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide."
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Streets
249 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Asmaa Mahfouz
Activist
"I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved."
Janice Dickinson
Model, Author
"I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York."
Toni Cade Bambara
Writer, Activist
"Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there."
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"I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game."
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"Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo."
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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener."
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"I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power."
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"Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street."
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"You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them."
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"I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine."
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"Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue."
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"The finest woman that ever walked the streets."
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"Respect is not a one way street"
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"By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'."
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"I'm trying to get other niggas off the streets."
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"If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much."
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"The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street."
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"I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself."
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"If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him."
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"If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean."
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"Weapons of war have no place on our streets."
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"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
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