Ghetto Quotes

• Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

  Big Pun

  Education, Wise, Batteries

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  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

  Losing, Take Me

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Flower, Hip Hop

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

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• I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail.
  In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
  My eyes see the glory, and well,
  The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Rap

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Talking

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• I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

  Tupac Shakur

  Death, Heaven, Wonder

  Song: I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto

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• No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

  Method Man

  Rapper, Matter, Where You Belong

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• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

  Mason Cooley

  Roots, Faithful, Versions

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

  Rakim

  Rap, Wind, Hip Hop

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

  Teyana

  Fashion, Chic, Hood

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• 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

  White, People, Water

  "Mind of Mencia", www.imdb.com. (2005-).

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• I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Black, Males

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• A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

  Ice Cube

  People, Percentages, Knows

  "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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• I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

  will.i.am

  Two, Homeless, Welfare

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• What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Roots

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• I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

  Wyclef Jean

  Negative, Projects

  "Interview: Wyclef Jean two wrong lyric". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• Yo' Momma, I'm a ghetto super star.

  Ludacris

  Stars, Momma, Egotism

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• I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kids, Government, Doe

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• The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

  Ziggy Marley

  Roots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Zubin Mehta

  Pain, Rap, Moving

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• I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Shy

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• Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

  Eartha Kitt

  Boys, Guy, Lost

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• 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

  Interesting, Childhood, Parent

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

  Neil Tennant

  Thinking, People, Elements

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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