Ghetto Quotes

272 Ghetto quotes by 182 unique authors

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. — Florence Griffith Joyner
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means… — James H. Cone
I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by… — Pauline Hanson
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training… — Sadie Frost
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would… — Albert Bandura
It's not that I prefer black girls, but that's who I find myself relating to as a human being. I am also attracted to really… — Jon B.
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… — Ben Okri
When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call… — Carlos Mencia
Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and… — Ron Suskind
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together,… — Lionel Blue
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a… — Joan D. Chittister
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this… — John Dos Passos
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top… — Bonnie Raitt
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self… — Malcolm X
American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented… — Manohla Dargis
In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with… — Joel Kinnaman
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California. — Vanessa Marcil
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put… — William Thomas Ellis
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and… — Richard Lamm
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was… — Bill Russell
The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to… — Mahmoud Abbas
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. — Wyclef Jean
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music.… — Dr. Dre

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