Common Quote by Gloria Steinem

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

— Maxime Bernier

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…

— Oprah Winfrey

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

— Tracy Morgan

The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

— Mae Jemison

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in…

— James Levine

As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents…

— Kelly Price

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to…

— Helene D. Gayle

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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…

— Ben Okri

Every kid in the ghetto dream of being rich, and rich kid wants to be a gangsta.

— MC Hammer

How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem…

— Charles Wesley