Ghetto Quotes

272 Ghetto quotes by 182 unique authors

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… — Ben Okri
What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect… — Frederick Lenz
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had… — Jean Genet
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' — Mason Cooley
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. — Phyllis Diller
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to… — John Hume
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits. — Jessie J
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in… — Quincy Jones
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat? — Suge Knight
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. — Rem Koolhaas
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star. — Richard Pryor
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. — Diana Ross
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed… — Vidal Sassoon
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance… — Zadie Smith
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a… — Tom Stoppard
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos… — Alice Walker
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the… — Elie Wiesel
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's… — Saul Williams
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age… — Oprah Winfrey
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom… — James Wolcott
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough… — Carter G. Woodson
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with… — Carter G. Woodson
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. — will.i.am

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