Ghetto Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Being Strong, Hands, Black People

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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• How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

  Suge Knight

  Rats

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• 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

  Men, Rapper, Made

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• The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Self, Discipline

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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

  Suge Knight

  Thug, Way, Violence

  "Mutha knows best" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at.

  Delano Johnson

  People, Finding Love, Royal Palaces

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• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  Ice Cube

  World, Way, Right Way

  "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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• If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

  Dick Gregory

  Meat, Killing, Justify

  Dick Gregory (1968). “The shadow that scares me”

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• 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

  Kind, Born, Refined

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• If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Stupid, Cities, Hateful

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Children, Grows

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• Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream big dreams. But for kids who are born in the ghetto in the era of mass incarceration, the system is designed in such a way that it traps them, often for life.

  Michelle Alexander

  Dream, Children, Mistake

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Successful, Parent, Path

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• 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.

  Coolio

  Nice, Men, Car

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

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• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Second Chance

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• 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

  School, Ideas, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Poverty, Discrimination

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• You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

  Klaus Kinski

  Wall, Finding Yourself, Leap

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Mainstream Society, Islands, Individuality

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• The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  Imperfect, Jew, Humans

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• If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.

  will.i.am

  Dream, Reality, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Diana Ross

  Detroit, Used

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• 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

  Struggle, Organization, Racism

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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• 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

  Funny, Continuity Of Life, People

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

  Snoop Dogg

  Dream, Growing Up, Whole Life

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

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