The Ghetto Quotes: top 86 famous quotes about The Ghetto

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

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied. — Will.i.am

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. — Lionel Blue

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

You can hear the seven sins
Blowin' through the ghetto wind ... — Rakim

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. — Zubin Mehta

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. — Elie Wiesel

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else. — Edgar Hilsenrath

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. — Klaus Kinski

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

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world. — Selma James

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

The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

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

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

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

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive. — Suge Knight

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 was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid. — Bob Cousy

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

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray. — Coolio

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. — Will.i.am

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die. — Tupac Shakur

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. — Jerry Spinelli

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' — Mason Cooley

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

Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living;
Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving. — DMX

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. — Bono

Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars. — Ben Fountain

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

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

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

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. — Wyclef Jean

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

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

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet — Teyana

An unexpected ripple has been torn in their meticulously cultivated ghetto paradise, and I'm the mothafuckin' pebble. — Daniel Jose Older

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands

Ghetto is not the People but their state of mind. — Joan Ambu

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

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

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

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

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out. — Snoop Dogg

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. — Diana Ross

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

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

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't? — O.J. Simpson

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. — Mac Davis

Helicopters - "ghetto birds," as the other residents called them - — Duff McKagan

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

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise. — Big Pun