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> [But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/but-while-so-many-white-americans-are-unaware-of-conditions-inside/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-okri/ghetto-dwellers-are-the-great-fantasists-there-was-an-extraordinary/)

[Ben Okri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-okri/)

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