Purple Gang can refer to:
- The Purple Gang, Jewish American bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s
- The Purple Gang (band), British rock band active intermittently since the 1960s
- East Harlem Purple Gang, Italian American gang of drug dealers and hitmen
- Purple People Eaters, defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from the late 1960s to the late 1970s
Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or gang:
“When you take a light perspective, it’s easier to step back and relax when your child doesn’t walk until fifteen months, . . . is not interested in playing ball, wants to be a cheerleader, doesn’t want to be a cheerleader, has clothes strewn in the bedroom, has difficulty making friends, hates piano lessons, is awkward and shy, reads books while you are driving through the Grand Canyon, gets caught shoplifting, flunks Spanish, has orange and purple hair, or is lesbian or gay.”
—Charlotte Davis Kasl (20th century)
“We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)