Ghetto Quotes

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long -- they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars.

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.

A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.

I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.