other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban…

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

— Thomas Friedman

I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a…

— Robin DiAngelo

“So you need an alarm system because you gonna be in bad neighborhoods?" "Actually, I sort of stole a car, and I'm afraid the…

— Janet Evanovich

Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a…

— Michelle Alexander

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

— Prodigy

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad…

— Charles Barkley

“our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport.…

— Katherine Dunn

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. If I went…

— Don Cornelius

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has…

— Marie Antoinette

“When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected…

— Gayle D. Erwin

“Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor’s fence.”

— Meredith Blevins

My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods…

— George Pelecanos