Ghetto Quotes

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This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail. In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell. My eyes see the glory, and well, The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living; Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.