“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster…

To me being a gangster was better than being president of the United States. Even before I first wandered into the cab stand for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies.  They weren’t like anybody else, they did whatever they wanted.”