Inner City Quotes

64 quotes by 54 authors

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took… — Mary J. Blige
It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too… — Benjamin Carson
As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have… — Carmelo Anthony
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond… — Wilma Rudolph
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up… — Grace Lee Boggs
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on… — Jonathan Kozol
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek… — Helen Prejean
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together. — Tracy Morgan
I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who… — Maxine Waters
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative… — Malcolm Gladwell
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy or weak of… — Barack Obama
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban… — Michael Porter
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop… — Marian Wright Edelman
If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. — Eric Bogosian
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city… — Michelle Alexander
I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't… — Allen West
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own… — Marla Gibbs
Iâ€™m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. Iâ€™m not even supposed to be here. Thatâ€™s enough. Every night I walk into the… — LeBron James

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