“I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.” YoungGirlParentBoysJokesDirtyHatedPullingGangThis GirlKnickersDirty JokesShoplifting Author:John Lennon
“Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.” MenYearsLittlesIdeasHomeBigsNamesFunChanceBoysDiseaseGunMachinesDiedYeahFranceGirlfriendCracksDiscipleGangSkinnyNeedlesSeventeenMachine GunsSeventeen Years Old Author:Prince
“Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.” KindLittlesDoneActorsFatherStarsActingBoysHeardCollegeHugeAmountLaughterTheaterTeenagerFestivalsGangApplauseLittle BoysCampusPrecociousOff To CollegeTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.” WayDifferentReasonProblemGirlCommunityAbilityBoysImportanceGenderSolveBackgroundsComing OutMasculinityGangMembershipMarginalized Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs.” MenWantMayProblemHomeYoungGirlCommunityViewsBoysMembersAvailableTraditionalInstanceOur FamilyYoung ManFemininityGangLatinoSexuallyGood GirlGang Members Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.” GirlDifferencesBoysViolentGang Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang.” KindGirlBoysDangerousMalesGangInvolvementHanging AroundKind Of Girl Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.” ChildrenSchoolForceClassBoysMiddleMiddle ClassKnivesGangGhettoMiddle Class FamilyFatherless Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.” PeopleWayMindEyeAgeBlackWhiteBoysLaughingWeekBrokenMouthsCornersNewspapersMagazinesEveningHis EyesGet BackGangTwistedOf My MindSwollenEmmett Till Author:Muhammad Ali