Inner-City Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. — Diane Watson
• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live… — Fred Thompson
• My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff
• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated. — Jack Canfield
• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics… — Arne Duncan
• I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an… — Richard Dean Anderson
• In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. — Bill Gates
• Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of… — Jonathan Kozol
• Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now… — will.i.am
• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city… — Geoffrey Canada
• Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers. — William Julius Wilson
• Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series.… — Alison Gopnik
• I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face. — David Blunkett
• At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children… — Jonathan Kozol

Who Wrote These Inner-City Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Inner-City Quotes as follows:

• 2 Inner-City Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Wilma Rudolph
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Arne Duncan
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Bill Gates
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Tracy Morgan
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Marla Gibbs
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Judy Woodruff
• 1 Inner-City Quote by will.i.am
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Jack Canfield
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Geoffrey Canada
• 1 Inner-City Quote by William Julius Wilson
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Alison Gopnik
• 1 Inner-City Quote by David Blunkett
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Diane Watson
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Fred Thompson
• 1 Inner-City Quote by Richard Dean Anderson