If I had gone to my local school, I think I would have got harassed by gang members, and I think I would have probably dropped out in a couple of months.
You might have seen me on the cover of the New York Times Bestseller "Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur" where I share the philosophies I used to propel me to success, from the jail cell to the boardroom.
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He had a shaved head heavily tattooed with gang signs that I recognized from California.
We have already introduced gang injunctions and I can announce today that we are going to use them across the whole country for children and for adults.
The good news is that today a group of senators, the Gang of Six, Democrats and Republicans -- I guess now Gang of Seven, because one additional Republican senator added on -- put forward a proposal that is broadly consistent with the approach that I've urged.
And while a special bipartisan congressional committee representing both the House and Senate (to be called the Gang of 12, I suppose) will have the authority to recommend tax reform later this year, there is no reason to believe it will do so.
The community had been plagued by gang violence, so once I arrived, one of the first things we tried to do was to mobilize a meeting with community leaders to deal with gangs.
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As a Sami descendant, I became curious about the origin of Santa and his gang of reindeer last year on the Arctic tundra, where I experienced firsthand how difficult it can be to rig up even one reindeer.
They are worried about 'that young man who I know is in a gang' and they want to report it quietly.
From my window, I watch as a work-gang is summoned from houses along the track to place boulders under the carriage and lever the wheels.
And the truth of the matter is, is that the commission recommendations are ones that not only I, but the so-called Gang of Six, these senators in the United States Senate, agreed to as well.
"After being in piracy for eight years, I have decided to renounce and quit, and from today on I will not be involved in this gang activity, " AFP news agency quotes Afweyneh as saying at a news conference in Adado on Wednesday.
"I know respect from your friends, your crew, your gang on the estate is important, " he said.
On the few occasions when I came across other people at the Twenty Two, I felt cheated, as if I had looked out of the window at home and discovered a gang of kids passing a bottle back and forth on our lawn.
But I think it's important to note that the members of the Gang of Six represent in many ways progressive Democrats and very conservative Republicans.
Through a colleague I found a small shelter operated by a reformed ex-con and former gang member who has spent the majority of his life in prison.
Okay, I get that Norquist opposes a deficit reduction deal that includes revenues and is no fan of the Gang of Six.
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" This was a serious statement from one of John's good friends, an African American ex-gang member from Detroit who, as John said, "would die for me now, just like I'd die for him.
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Certainly the Popular Planning Unit, which I directed and which worked for the Industry and Employment Committee of the GLC, was an independently minded gang.
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