Ghetto Quotes - Page 4

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

  Bono

  Rocks, Self, Rock N Roll

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• But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party - whose members for the most part come from the ghetto - seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Thinking, White

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

  Jessie J

  Style, Tacky, Jewelry

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

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• The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?

  Thomas Sowell

  Book, Hypocrite, Gun

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• Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  School, Night, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Strong, Character, Training

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

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• 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

  School, College, Childhood

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• 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

  Religious, Taken, Gay

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• We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Class, Black

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Respect, Men

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• 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

  Moving On, Moved On, World

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• 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

  Dance, Book, Writing

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• 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

  Leadership, Uplifting, Fundamentals

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

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• 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

  Christian, Shame, Nazi

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• 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

  Wind, People, Friendly

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• 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

  Block, Heart, Black And White

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• 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

  Order, People, Situation

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• 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

  Reality, Men, Passing On

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• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  Francesca Annis

  Strong, Years, Wife

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• Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.

  Michelle Alexander

  Opportunity, Color, Guarantees That

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Bobby Sands

  Boys, Class, Spirit

  Republican News, December 16, 1978.

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, People

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• So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the 9-to-5-in' bus ridin' dudes And four times for my dreamers, yo I'm just like you That's why I sing for my queens with their own pair of wings My brothers flyin' beside me, drama behind me Mama tried to find me, she inquired emphatically I was in the sky with all these other ghetto kids, defying gravity, uh

  Danny Denzongpa

  Brother, Queens, Drama

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• 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

  Mother, Children, School

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• In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Father, School, Kids

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

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