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  • I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

    Dream   Kids   Would Be  
    Serena Williams' US Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 7, 2014.
  • I think Straight Outta Compton is one of the greatest biopics, but I am biased on that one, obviously. There are some things the Academy gets wrong and it's important to call them on it. But in other instances, there are simply just better actors. They're doing a better job than they've done, but there's still room for improvement.

  • You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

    "Kendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad city". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.
  • Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get.

    Beach   Nice   Ghetto  
    Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.
  • Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers.

    Beach   Nice   Ghetto  
    Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 1995.
  • For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

    Men   Mind   World  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.

    Real   Ivy   Effort  
    Source: newrepublic.com
  • I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered, so that is how he portrayed it. And he had every right to do that. As did I.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

    Country   Long   Trying  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.86, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

    "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.
  • I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's a part of history. I hope this movie [ 'Surviving Compton'] gives you a little bit of me and of my music and my heart.

    Real   Heart   Giving  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you know? A lot of my music revolves around me growing up in Compton. I want to tell a different story that's never been told before, of a good kid in a mad city.

    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

    Remember   Film   Young  
    Source: collider.com
  • If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

    Football   Mother   Fire  
  • My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

    Mom   Sibling   Kids  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.

    Careers   Drs   Albums  
    "Kendrick Lamar Knows How to Deal with the Grammys Censors". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. 2016.
  • I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.

    Exercise   Play   Doubt  
  • You know, growing up my - you know, I came from Compton, Calif., and, you know, it was a place where a lot of people did come out when a lot of people stayed. So I've been able to see the top and the bottom of life, and I think that balances you if you allow it to and if you remember where you came from.

    "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.
  • If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

    Venus Williams during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 8, 2015.
  • It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.

  • If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

    Morning   Book   Writing  
    Source: newrepublic.com
  • Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

    Compton   Picks   Hard  
    "The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett". Book by Elizabeth Sprigge, 1973.
  • I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

    "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.
  • For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

  • The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

  • As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

    Mean   Thinking   Next  
    Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.
  • I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus and travel quite a ways to get to an arthouse theater - none of which you're gonna find in black and brown communities - to see anything that was outside of what the studios fed me, and that's not the case anymore.

    Order   Community   Black  
    Source: collider.com
  • There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

    Beach   Cities   Long  
    The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.
  • Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

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