Ghetto Quotes
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Ghetto Quotes & Sayings
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But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
— Mark Heard
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?
— Suge Knight
I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now.
— Kelly Clarkson
I never trusted the police. It was just something you were taught growing up in the ghetto, especially when your father ran dope. "Can
— Porscha Sterling
The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
— Zubin Mehta
The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
— Ziggy Marley
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
— Tony Harrison
This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.
— James Baldwin
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
— Robert Moses
On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.
— Elvis Presley
Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?
— Donald Jeffries
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, they tell you straight!
— Jimmy Cliff
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
— Vanessa Marcil
When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
— Joy Bryant
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
— James A. Baldwin
When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.
— Sean Hannity
Ghetto was from Newark and Spazo was from the Polo Grounds in Harlem. Ghetto's family lived in Harlem.
— Dion Perkins
I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.
— Michel Ocelot
Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.
— Vincent Collins
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
— Erick Erickson
Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto. — Kris Kidd
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto. — Kris Kidd
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
— Stevie Wonder
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
— Dick Gregory
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
— Bernie Mac
I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
— Junior Seau
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
— Florence Griffith Joyner
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
— Anzia Yezierska
Back down to the ghetto again," I said. "Good for you," Hawk said. "Give you a chance to be a minority." "I like you," I said. "I am a minority.
— Robert B. Parker
The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.
— Marlon James
I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet
— Habeeb Akande
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
— Rem Koolhaas
Every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.
— Marlon James
Institutionalized:
Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long
they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. — T.F. Hodge
Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long
they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. — T.F. Hodge
When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.
— Carlos Mencia
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
— James Brown
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
— Malcolm X
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
— Jerry Spinelli
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
— Talib Kweli
Killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. Madness
— Marlon James
Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
— Eartha Kitt
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
— Coolio
Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.
— Tupac Shakur
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
— Sheila Ballantyne
The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.
— Aaron Rose
There are no ghettos in Heaven,
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you'll find repentant gangsters. — Matshona Dhliwayo
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you'll find repentant gangsters. — Matshona Dhliwayo
This is my genre ... the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
— Jacob Lawrence
And killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.
— Marlon James
In America the dream is to make it out of the ghetto. In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto.
— Trevor Noah
An unexpected ripple has been torn in their meticulously cultivated ghetto paradise, and I'm the mothafuckin' pebble.
— Daniel Jose Older
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
— Neil Tennant
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.
— Jessie J.
In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway.
— Hal Duncan
Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,
— Diane Ackerman
I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
— Xavier Dolan
When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.
— Chris Rock
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
— Bobby Sands
That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem
— Michele McKnight Baker
We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.
— Chaim Potok
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
— Bono
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
— Manny Montana
Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.
— Susan Nathan
Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void.
— Marlon James
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
— Della Reese
Its ghetto paradise for some and hell on earth for others!
— Habeeb Akande
Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
— Snoop Dogg
There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.
— Snoop Dogg
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Ghetto Fiction with a twist take a peak it's the shit. Not for the timid or the meek don't be scared take a peek...
— Cynthia Rubio
Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.
— Vj Nadar
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
— Master P
Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did:
Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight. — Malcolm X
Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight. — Malcolm X
I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.
— Charlemagne Palestine
It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.
— Felix Alexander
You look all elegant and sleek, like some golden and black cat. Then you go all ghetto on me when a pretty book shakes its ass in front of you.
— Rhys Ford
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
— Richard Pryor
Yo' Momma, I'm a ghetto super star.
— Ludacris