The Ghetto Quotes
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The 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 Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
— Edgar Hilsenrath
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
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
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
— Vanessa Marcil
Ghetto was from Newark and Spazo was from the Polo Grounds in Harlem. Ghetto's family lived in Harlem.
— Dion Perkins
My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.
— Lee Daniels
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
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
— Erick Erickson
Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.
— Vincent Collins
Apathetic in my adolescence,my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto. — Kris Kidd
Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
— Eartha Kitt
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
This is my genre ... the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
— Jacob Lawrence
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
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
— Jerry Spinelli
There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.
— Kimora Lee Simmons
Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark
— C.L. Smooth
Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.
— John Leguizamo
...bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.
— J.D. Vance
That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem
— Michele McKnight Baker
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
— Manny Montana
An unexpected ripple has been torn in their meticulously cultivated ghetto paradise, and I'm the mothafuckin' pebble.
— Daniel Jose Older
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
I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
— Junior Seau
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
— Dick Gregory
The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.
— Aaron Rose
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
— Sheila Ballantyne
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
— Talib Kweli
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
— Malcolm X
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
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
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
Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
— 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
I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet
— Habeeb Akande
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
