Quote by Cynthia Rubio

“Ghetto is not the People but their state of mind.”

— Joan Ambu

“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

— J.D. Vance

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

— Jacob Lawrence

“But those who read thrillers are an impatient race. They chafe at scenic rhapsodies and want to get on to the rough stuff.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem”

— Michele Mcknight Baker

“I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on.”

— Khaled Hosseini

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Never forget the blood sweat and tears The uphill struggle over years the fear and, trash talking and the people it was to, and…

— Linkin Park

“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of…

— Richard Matheson

“We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth…

— Ernest J. Gaines

“The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.”

— Don DeLillo

“What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotion, now looks like a storm in the…

— C.G. Jung