Sentence examples for in homeboy from inspiring English sources

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… "He could break your heart with a look," wrote Bob Dylan of Rourke's performance in Homeboy.

The other day, Mr. Malignaggi responded to this slight while sitting in Portobello's, his manager's pizzeria, a Brooklyn Nets cap cocked in homeboy fashion on his head.

The boy down the hall is black (played, at the performance I saw, by a very cute and composed child named Dajon Matthews), which allows for some asides delivered in homeboy lingo and rap verse but which is otherwise a pointless role.

Take, for instance, in "Homeboy Down the Block," the extravagant hat that tops the tumbled features eyes at once too low and too high above a cinematically black-and-white mouth which might have been filched from the head of a Dutchman in a portrait by Frans Hals.

"You gon— you gonna tuck that shirt in, homeboy?" "Yeah we'll Photoshop the face".

Many youths are employed in Homeboy Industries' enterprises: Homeboy Bakery, Homegirl Café, Homeboy Maintenance and Homeboy Silkscreen & Embroidery.

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Their employees are encouraged to permanently remain in Homeboys' sub-culture of racial exclusiveness and ultra-leftist/anti-law enforcement philosophy.

"We are going on the road this summer to visit organizations nationwide such as Café Reconcile in New Orleans, Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, Delancey Street in San Francisco and Evergreen Co-Op in Cleveland, that are assisting individuals in becoming self-sufficient.

So there were jackets in a homeboy blend of tailoring and sweatshirt cotton, a Latin dance skirt in many layers of black and white cotton, coats based on Hasidic styles and a silvery dress that recalled the Art Deco towers of New York.

Andre now sells sweatshirts, mugs and other mementos in the Homeboy Industries shop, and speaks clear and even eloquent standard English.There are many such stories.

Beginning with a bakery in 1992, Homeboy Industries has empowered thousands of onetime gang members to redirect their lives and, like its founder, is now a source of inspiration throughout the country and the world.

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