Inner city Quotes · Page 2

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

— William Julius Wilson

Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything.…

— Charles Oakley

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

— Matthew Desmond

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

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

— C. J. McCollum

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

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

— John Kasich

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

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

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

— Diane Watson

In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want…

— Barry Keoghan

I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.…

— Donald Trump

When I was just a young kid who grew up in the inner city of Cleveland, I used to catch the bus…

— Rich Paul

One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of…

— Anais Nin

For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to…

— Donald Trump

Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots…

— David Horowitz

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

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of…

— Denis Hayes

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

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

— Margaret Geller

I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in…

— Nafessa Williams

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

— Tracy Morgan

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can…

— Tinchy Stryder

What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

— Danny K. Davis

I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety…

— Donald Trump

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

— Judy Woodruff

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

— Donald Trump

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

— Ansel Elgort

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

— Jack Canfield

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump

When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in…

— Jesse Watters

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

— Donald Trump

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

— Michael J. Knowles

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

— Tim Henman

Very often the best chance for a child in an inner city to acquire an excellent start in education is the church…

— Damian Green

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.

— Star Parker