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For gender, myself, it’s been a constant struggle under colonialism, not to accept and affirm myself, but to find acceptance and affirmation and understanding outside of myself. – Ganesha Gold Buffalo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You've got guns, use them. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There is no alternative, we [Europeans] cannot be the mediators, that is clear.… And it cannot be the U.S., either. Who else? It has to be China; I trust in that. – Vladimir Putin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We pulled Trump off Twitter. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence. We’re allowing it to stay on these sites. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Entrepreneurship has everything to do [with it] because we know that where there is wealth, where there is commerce, where there is good credit scores, you don't see challenges in education, poor health outcomes, lack of vision for opportunity, if you can't see it, you don't think about being it. – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For far too long, but I'll tell you, pastor, it's coming back, young people are starting to see that there are many roads in which they can be. They don't just have to be a rapper or an athlete to make it forward. They can be a business owner. – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I can only do it because Project H.O.O.D. inspires me. It inspires anybody, i'm fortunate to come from four generations of entrepreneurs. First in Arkansas, my great-grandparents and grandparents and then my parents here in Chicago. And so, I want to continue that, and I want my grandchildren, my grandsons—I got three grandsons, and I want them to be a part of this experience and know that we can lead the way forward. – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Yes, we are, what does entrepreneurship have to do with stopping violence? – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Don't hide behind the coattails of government. Move forward with business solutions to solve the problems that we have right now, the good news is through advanced technologies, 3D printing, 3D manufacturing, you can put a manufacturing facility in your basement. You can put it in a 1,000 square foot garage. There's no reason we shouldn't be making and printing and designing and producing. And look, you can put a saying on a t-shirt and sell them for $40 and make a $2,000 on the weekend. So get your hustle on, and start doing business. – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We started to disperse and go to the South Side, the further South Side, the south suburbs, we started to lose that capacity, we became consumers as opposed to producers. – Bruce Montgomery	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Of course, talking about possibly sending additional troops to Eastern Europe is not the same as actually sending them, but it may be significant enough to do the job. – John Herbst	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Nah. Around here, we don't have enough time to grieve, sometimes it's mentally, physically, everything just be draining, but I just keep going. Just keep going. I know the people I lost, they going to be proud of me one day. – Mario Rawls	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Man, that'll be a tremendous idea … I've learnt everything on my own, but any knowledge I got, I will help any youth, any youth that want to get into this, chicago is very toxic. We just got to get a peace of mind. – Mario Rawls	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s very hard, living in low-income apartments. It’s gang-infested everywhere in Chicago, we ain’t really had a lot of opportunities that a lot of people have in the world. – Mario Rawls	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Yeah. It'll bring a lot of opportunities, and it'll keep a lot of us off the streets, instead of being in the street, you could be in the center learning how to do something that could affect you in a good way later in your life. – Ikee Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Work hard, got to work. You got to work. – Ikee Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The community center, the church right here, they do what they can for us, and we appreciate that, when I was younger, I really didn't understand what the stuff they was doing. I was like, ‘Ah, it's lame.’ But now as I'm older, and I understand everything, I be like, ‘It's everything for a reason.’. – Mario Rawls	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While I was in the program, I met a gentleman by the name of Bill, the CEO of Reed Construction, he provided me with a business card that day. – Devin Howard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I started picking up hands-on things such as real estate and carpentry and painting. I started falling in love with those things, my mom been in real estate for a minute and I somewhat leaned on her and I watched her. And I would start thinking how can I provide generational wealth for my family and for myself? – Devin Howard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was crazy because I had just been cleaning out my room, throwing away business cards. And he called me that same exact day, he offered me a position with the company as a project engineer. So from that point on, it's just been great. Great opportunities. – Devin Howard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It would be definitely beneficial, i know for myself personal friends haven't left at least four blocks going east, west, north and south. Some never seen downtown. And when I see some of their reactions, when I expose them to some of the things that I've done already – and it's not like nothing major to me – but when I see their expression, it gives me a happy feeling inside. – Devin Howard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I came to a realization I didn't like nursing, and while I was there, I started realizing certain things that just wasn't falling in line with myself. – Devin Howard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My mom called me, she tells me about the carpentry program [at Project H.O.O.D.], i said, 'I'm going to think about it.' Next thing you know, she's like, ‘You're not doing anything right now. The real estate hasn't really picked up yet. Let's take it on.’ And she was right. Time is your biggest commodity. – Devin Howard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

For gender, myself, it’s been a constant struggle under colonialism, not to accept and affirm myself, but to find acceptance and affirmation and understanding outside of myself.

– Ganesha Gold Buffalo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You've got guns, use them.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is no alternative, we [Europeans] cannot be the mediators, that is clear.… And it cannot be the U.S., either. Who else? It has to be China; I trust in that.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We pulled Trump off Twitter.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence. We’re allowing it to stay on these sites.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Entrepreneurship has everything to do [with it] because we know that where there is wealth, where there is commerce, where there is good credit scores, you don't see challenges in education, poor health outcomes, lack of vision for opportunity, if you can't see it, you don't think about being it.

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For far too long, but I'll tell you, pastor, it's coming back, young people are starting to see that there are many roads in which they can be. They don't just have to be a rapper or an athlete to make it forward. They can be a business owner.

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I can only do it because Project H.O.O.D. inspires me. It inspires anybody, i'm fortunate to come from four generations of entrepreneurs. First in Arkansas, my great-grandparents and grandparents and then my parents here in Chicago. And so, I want to continue that, and I want my grandchildren, my grandsons—I got three grandsons, and I want them to be a part of this experience and know that we can lead the way forward.

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Yes, we are, what does entrepreneurship have to do with stopping violence?

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Don't hide behind the coattails of government. Move forward with business solutions to solve the problems that we have right now, the good news is through advanced technologies, 3D printing, 3D manufacturing, you can put a manufacturing facility in your basement. You can put it in a 1,000 square foot garage. There's no reason we shouldn't be making and printing and designing and producing. And look, you can put a saying on a t-shirt and sell them for $40 and make a $2,000 on the weekend. So get your hustle on, and start doing business.

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We started to disperse and go to the South Side, the further South Side, the south suburbs, we started to lose that capacity, we became consumers as opposed to producers.

– Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Of course, talking about possibly sending additional troops to Eastern Europe is not the same as actually sending them, but it may be significant enough to do the job.

– John Herbst

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nah. Around here, we don't have enough time to grieve, sometimes it's mentally, physically, everything just be draining, but I just keep going. Just keep going. I know the people I lost, they going to be proud of me one day.

– Mario Rawls

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Man, that'll be a tremendous idea … I've learnt everything on my own, but any knowledge I got, I will help any youth, any youth that want to get into this, chicago is very toxic. We just got to get a peace of mind.

– Mario Rawls

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s very hard, living in low-income apartments. It’s gang-infested everywhere in Chicago, we ain’t really had a lot of opportunities that a lot of people have in the world.

– Mario Rawls

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Yeah. It'll bring a lot of opportunities, and it'll keep a lot of us off the streets, instead of being in the street, you could be in the center learning how to do something that could affect you in a good way later in your life.

– Ikee Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Work hard, got to work. You got to work.

– Ikee Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The community center, the church right here, they do what they can for us, and we appreciate that, when I was younger, I really didn't understand what the stuff they was doing. I was like, ‘Ah, it's lame.’ But now as I'm older, and I understand everything, I be like, ‘It's everything for a reason.’.

– Mario Rawls

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While I was in the program, I met a gentleman by the name of Bill, the CEO of Reed Construction, he provided me with a business card that day.

– Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I started picking up hands-on things such as real estate and carpentry and painting. I started falling in love with those things, my mom been in real estate for a minute and I somewhat leaned on her and I watched her. And I would start thinking how can I provide generational wealth for my family and for myself?

– Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was crazy because I had just been cleaning out my room, throwing away business cards. And he called me that same exact day, he offered me a position with the company as a project engineer. So from that point on, it's just been great. Great opportunities.

– Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would be definitely beneficial, i know for myself personal friends haven't left at least four blocks going east, west, north and south. Some never seen downtown. And when I see some of their reactions, when I expose them to some of the things that I've done already – and it's not like nothing major to me – but when I see their expression, it gives me a happy feeling inside.

– Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I came to a realization I didn't like nursing, and while I was there, I started realizing certain things that just wasn't falling in line with myself.

– Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My mom called me, she tells me about the carpentry program [at Project H.O.O.D.], i said, 'I'm going to think about it.' Next thing you know, she's like, ‘You're not doing anything right now. The real estate hasn't really picked up yet. Let's take it on.’ And she was right. Time is your biggest commodity.

– Devin Howard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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