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Ghetto Quotes by Ben Okri
- Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of…
- 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…
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- As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of… — Bono
- The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. — Bono
- One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could… — Stokely Carmichael
- Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the… — Francesca Annis
- I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I… — Tupac Shakur
- Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die. — Tupac Shakur
- If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if… — Tupac Shakur
- I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because… — Tupac Shakur
- I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what… — Master P
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou
- This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower