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How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat? -- Suge Knight
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star. -- Richard Pryor
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. -- Phyllis Diller
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. -- Klaus Kinski
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. -- Carter G. Woodson
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. -- Spiro T. Agnew
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. -- Jean Genet
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. -- Stokely Carmichael
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. -- Oprah Winfrey
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. -- Quincy Jones
When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist. -- Sean Hannity
In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. -- Mac Davis
I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now. -- Kelly Clarkson
Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long -- they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. -- T.F. Hodge
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion. -- Sheila Ballantyne
Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes. -- Tupac Shakur
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
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. -- Ben Okri
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis." -- Norman Finkelstein
My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada, Tel-Hai, and the Warsaw Ghetto - where the battle was lost, but the war of Jewish existence was won. -- David Elazar
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. -- Coretta Scott King
The roots of my music start from the ghetto. -- Ziggy Marley
No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place. -- Method Man
Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go. -- Method Man
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't? -- O. J. Simpson
Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' -- Mason Cooley
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' -- Mason Cooley
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. -- Wyclef Jean
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that. -- Damian Marley
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is. -- Bernie Mac
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
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
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
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
Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands. -- Michelle Rodriguez
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. -- Rick Moody
When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets. -- Young Jeezy
I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit. -- Sadie Frost
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. -- Carter G. Woodson
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. -- Tom Stoppard
There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it. -- Kelly Price
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. -- Lionel Blue
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. -- Philip Zimbardo
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. -- Eldridge Cleaver
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. -- Eminem
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. -- Eminem
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. -- M.I.A.
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. -- Jess Walter
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. -- Theodore White
She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her. -- Laurieann Gibson
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! An upper class, more educated person - they find a diplomatic way to tell you the thing. I love it when you just come heart to heart. That's the way I knew it coming up, so that's the way I like it. -- Jimmy Cliff
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto? -- Tupac Shakur
Yo' Momma, I'm a ghetto super star. -- Ludacris
Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise. -- Big Pun
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid. -- Bob Cousy
I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray. -- Coolio
I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet -- Teyana
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. -- Jerry Spinelli
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. -- Malcolm X
You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind... -- Rakim
I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto. -- Junior Seau
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence. -- James A. Baldwin
Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration. -- Tracy Morgan
The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world. -- Selma James
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. -- will.i.am
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits. -- Jessie J
I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. -- Cintra Wilson
The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else. -- Edgar Hilsenrath
Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die. -- Tupac Shakur
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. -- Diana Ross
For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive. -- Suge Knight
Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won. -- Eartha Kitt
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows. -- Talib Kweli
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. -- Zubin Mehta
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough. -- Neil Tennant
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. -- Malcolm X
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California. -- Vanessa Marcil
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. -- Rem Koolhaas
Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living; Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving. -- DMX
Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark -- C.L. Smooth
My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto. -- Wyclef Jean
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. -- Tony Harrison
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. -- Jacob Lawrence
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto. -- Erick Erickson
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
On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries. -- Elvis Presley
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 great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. -- Bono
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one. -- Dick Gregory
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
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. -- Bobby Sands
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
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside. -- Mark Heard
I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. -- George Gilder
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
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
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
Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation. -- Pat Swindall
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
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
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
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
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
I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordanthis is like spring break in the ghetto. -- Charles Barkley
This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one. -- Franklyn Ajaye
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum. -- Kate Braverman
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves. -- Gloria Steinem
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
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
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
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. -- Vidal Sassoon
I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto. -- Charles Barkley
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility. -- Larry Wilmore
The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different. -- Edgar Hilsenrath
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
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. -- John Hume
In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto. -- Paul Reubens

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