30 Movie Quotes about Hood (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about hood, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Huh? Look at this! It's my hood! It's my hood! I ain't seen this thing in 20 years!

Larry The Cable Guy as Mater in Cars

2 Yo. I'm fixin' to tell you how it is in the hood. See, 'cause in the hood, everybody's a target.

Quote from Don't Be a Menace

3 Either they don't know or don't show or just don't care about bein' a menace to South central while they drink their juice in the hood.

Marlon Wayans as Loc Dog in Don't Be a Menace

4 Finally, someone from the hood is gonna make it. -Yeah, there is hope.

Shawn Wayans as Ashtray in Don't Be a Menace

5 We can hang in my crib. I will show you my hood.

Jackie Chan as Yang Naing Lee in Rush Hour (1998)

6 It hurt me to wake up and see my beautiful black people suffer, victimized by the oppressive, harsh realities of the hood.

Quote from Don't Be a Menace

7 You know, it's kinda tough... growin' up in the hood without a positive male role model to look up to.

Shawn Wayans as Ashtray in Don't Be a Menace

8 You could take Dashiki outta the hood, but you can't take the hood niggers out of Dashiki. Hmm?

Marlon Wayans as Loc Dog in Don't Be a Menace

9 Question: Who does she move the goodies for? Where do they come from? Where are they going? And why the hood?

Patrick Warburton as Wolf W. Wolf in Hoodwinked!

10 See, in the hood, most of us won't reach the age of 21.

Quote from Don't Be a Menace