Ghetto Quotes

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. (Bobby Sands)
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society. View quote
Stephen Harper
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. View quote
Carter Woodson
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. View quote
Anzia Yezierska
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control. View quote
John Hume
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. View quote
Lionel Blue
We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality. View quote
Neil Tennant
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. View quote
Rick Moody
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat? View quote
Suge Knight
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. (Rem Koolhaas)
Our leaders know we're turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what's happened. View quote
Matt Taibbi
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. View quote
Klaus Kinski
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 age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. View quote
Eminem
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. View quote
Phyllis Diller
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. View quote
Junot Diaz
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. View quote
Quincy Jones
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't? View quote
O. J. Simpson
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. View quote
Saul Williams
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. (Saul Williams)
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid. View quote
Bob Cousy
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood. View quote
Coolio
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. View quote
Della Reese
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. View quote
Florence Griffith Joyner