Richard Garland Quotations

One of the biggest things in the African-American community, people don't report crime.

I go to community meetings and everybody's jumping up and down, hollering at the police. He ain't the problem. ... We talk racism, we talk class. When do we put the onus on the community? Why are you letting this stuff go on?

We've got to help each other out, because this problem isn't going away.

He was one of the last ones I would have thought would get into that.

He connected to the kids through the sports. That's one of the reasons I was interested in having him work with us.

I've been there and done it. I'm a living example to a lot of folks that they can do the right thing too.

If I can get a 10-year-old a pair of Air Jordans, his allegiance is to me.

The drug dealers became these kids' best friends. They'd recruit these kids to be lookouts. The street raised these kids.