Ghetto Quotes - Page 9

• Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price's tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Book, Writing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.

  Richard Rogers

  Beautiful, Blue, Opening Up

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• One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Artist, Urban, Come Up

  "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

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• 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

  Imagination, Vibrancy, Belief

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• I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Get Better, Quality

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

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• Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?

  Elie Wiesel

  Home, Night, Lasts

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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• I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 per cent of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, Believe, Migrants

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Running, Spiritual, Risk

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• The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

  Oskar Schindler

  Stars, Pigs, Years

  Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.

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• Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

  Richard Lamm

  Heart, Ambition, Two

  "Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America". Book by Richard Lamm, 2006.

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• Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle.
  Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels.
  Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand
  That Santa Claus is a black man.

  Keith Murray

  Rap, Angel, Men

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• It's not that I prefer black girls, but that's who I find myself relating to as a human being. I am also attracted to really ghetto girls, straight out the hood... a thickey, a real 'pass the hot sauce' type girl.

  Jon B.

  Girl, Real, Black

  "Color Commentary: When Celebrities Talk Interracial Dating". "VIBE" Magazine, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).

  James H. Cone

  Mean, White, People

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
  The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
  But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
  Let no one forget about the hard part.

  MC Serch

  Rap, Heart, Numbers

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• Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living;
  Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.

  DMX

  Rap, Turkeys, Hip Hop

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• The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

  John Dos Passos

  Running, Country, Europe

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

  Ron Suskind

  Kids, Drug, Ruins

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Gangsta, America

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• They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Boys, Government

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

  Stephen Harper

  People, Migrants, Riding

  "The Report" Newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.

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• I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Good Luck, Sacrifice, Blessing

  Address to the Officers and Men of the Third Armored Division, www.3ad.com. June 02, 1944.

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• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.

  Calvin Miller

  Christian, Jesus, Writing

  Calvin Miller (1984). “The Table of Inwardness”, Intervarsity Press

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