Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.
I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've be… - Luis J. Rodriguez
I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've be…
- Luis J. Rodriguez
If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs ha… - Luis J. Rodriguez
If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs ha…
Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for ch… - Luis J. Rodriguez
Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for ch…
Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, te… - Luis J. Rodriguez
Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, te…
We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are p… - Luis J. Rodriguez
We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are p…
Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's… - Luis J. Rodriguez
Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's…
In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories. - Luis J. Rodriguez
In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories.
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home)… - Luis J. Rodriguez
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home)…
The more you know, the more you owe. - Luis J. Rodriguez
The more you know, the more you owe.
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