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Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge
I'm tryin' not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

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The Message

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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The Message. Sugar Hill Records, 1982.

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You know what's wild? Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence. Now what's Martin Luther King? A street. And I don't give a fuck where you at in America—if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence goin' down!

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit.

Boyz n the Hood

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs.

Howard "Bunny" Colvin

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The Wire

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"Misgivings." The Wire, written by David Simon and Eric Ellis Overmyer and Ed Burns, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, season 4, episode 10, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.

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Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood?

Do the Right Thing

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Either they don't know...don't show...or don't care about what's going on in the hood.

Boyz n the Hood

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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I'm down. But, I'm down for somethin' positive in the community. Are you down for that?

Do the Right Thing

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Well, how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flyin' and floatin' that shit in here.

Furious Styles

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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I'll tell you why. For the same reason that there is a liquor store on almost every corner in the black community. Why? They want us to kill ourselves.