Ghetto Quotes - Page 6

• The reason I introduced sex - or erotic imagery - to Purple is not only because I don't want sex to be hidden but because also I consider it as an extension of fashion, the way the body expresses seduction and beauty. It's very artificial to put sex in a ghetto. Plus, sex sells.

  Olivier Zahm

  Fashion, Seduction, Reason

  Source: wwd.com

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• American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isn’t genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.

  Manohla Dargis

  Mean, Independent, Opportunity

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• 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

  Stars, Children, School

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• To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

  2 Chainz

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

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

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• I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

  Robert Moses

  Eggs, People, Chef

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

  Dick Gregory

  Zoos, Animal, Doors

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.

  Drew Curtis

  Dog, Thinking, Two

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• The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

  Alan Hirsch

  Religious, Jesus, Adventure

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.92, Baker Books

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• No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Party, Black

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• What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

  Ben Katchor

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I am very attracted to the United States. Why? Well, as a little kid from Southern Italy, not from a wealthy family, it was always my dream to go to the Big Apple. I'm not one to listen to classical music. I am very much for what is American, but I also prefer the America of the ghetto. I love the Bronx. I love hip-hop and R&B. I love electro-Latino, Latin music, that whole realm.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Dream, Latin, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark

  C.L. Smooth

  Rap, Feelings, Parks

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• In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

  Cintra Wilson

  Socialism, Pageant, Burqa

  "Pissed about Palin". www.salon.com. September 10, 2008.

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• Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beach, Nice, Long

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

  Cornel West

  Racism, Police, Black

  "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave". www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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• There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

  Elliott Abrams

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• In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.

  Cornel West

  Jesus, Love You, Practice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

  Don King

  Men, Numbers, Boxing

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Class

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• Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Games, People

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• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Rap, Artist

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• 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

  Here I Am, Film, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

  Frank McCourt

  Thinking, Church, Helping

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• When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Kids, Night

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Eye, Mirrors

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.139, Macmillan

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