Cities Quote by James A. Baldwin Download Open image “A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.” — James A. Baldwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Existence Ghetto Life One way Way
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life. — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life. — Ray J Copy Share Image
I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something,… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture projection of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The people who have managed to get off this block have only got as far as a more respectable ghetto. This respectable ghetto does… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough. — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
I would love to see no more ghettos, but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something,… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people… — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
