Ghetto Quotes

272 Ghetto quotes by 182 unique authors

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being… — will.i.am
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream… — will.i.am
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make… — will.i.am
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian… — Philip Zimbardo
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma… — Junot Diaz
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of… — Leon Uris
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not… — Elie Wiesel
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. — Jerry Spinelli
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the… — Rosa Luxemburg
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form… — Malcolm X
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given… — Tony Judt
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs… — Maya Angelou
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively… — Matt Taibbi
Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest… — Matt Taibbi
Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy… — China Mieville
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority… — Theodore Kaczynski
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could… — Eldridge Cleaver
When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level,… — Young Jeezy
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that. — Damian Marley
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute… — Wood Harris
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. — Malcolm X
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. — Malcolm X

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