Inner city Quotes

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

— Barack Obama

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

— Anonymous

I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

— Liam Cunningham

The music I make is for the inner city.

— Goldie

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

— Baron Davis

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

— Greg Oden

I'm just a normal kid, really, from an inner-city background.

— Troy Deeney

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

— Nafessa Williams

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are…

— LeBron James

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

— David Blunkett

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

— Donald Trump

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

— Majora Carter

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

— Stefon Harris

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal…

— Muggsy Bogues

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the…

— William J. Clinton

In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost…

— Donald Trump

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we…

— Marian Wright Edelman

He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is…

— Elizabeth Edwards

We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for…

— Alex Haley

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but…

— will.i.am

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority…

— Diane Watson

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of…

— Benjamin Carson

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner…

— Margaret Beckett

The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -…

— David Boaz

It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs…

— Charles R. Swindoll

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do…

— Margaret Geller

“Don't be too enamored," Kanin warned, as if reading my thoughts. "The humans of the Inner City might be better dressed and…

— julia kagawa

At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother…

— Jim Wallis

One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in…

— Paula White

Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails…

— Paul Ormerod

I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in…

— Maxine Waters

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.…

— Lily Yeh

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things…

— Bill Gates

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

— Donald Trump

Being from Chicago, an inner-city kid, I'm fortunate enough now to be able to help the kids here when I come back,…

— Jahlil Okafor

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

— Mark Wahlberg

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

— C. J. McCollum

“In the inner city, much was made of early milestones. Later ones might never come. —”

— Matthew Desmond