I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary… — Evan Hunter Copy Share Image
People come to L.A. and they expect to see a ghetto like the projects, but that's not the way it's set up.… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and… — Retta Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
1)Take off on/Roll on=woop ass, cuss out Go left=lose your cool, go crazy 2)Peel back= Verbally tear into someone 3)Defecation of Character… — Josh Q Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop, The second a record was number one on the pop charts. But don't skip on the… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ajegunle, which is like a ghetto and it was very difficult there. When it would get to the… — Odion Ighalo Copy Share Image
The ghetto music of my era is hip-hop. And Parliament, and Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, that was all the ghetto stuff… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail,… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
“I hit every spot with my ghetto pride.I represent qualities of a ghetto child.so dont ever judge me cos I know who… — shinedope Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills,… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress… — Wood Harris Copy Share Image
Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image