Neighborhood Quotes - Page 18

• We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.

  Dolores Huerta

  People, Levels, Vote

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.

  Jeff Ross

  Thinking, Boston, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember going to Shibe Park, Connie Mack, when I was a kid with my dad and my mom. I felt more neighborhood-esque. And I like the idea, and I love the new downtown ballparks. I love when the venue is situated in a vibrant part of the urban setting.

  Joe Maddon

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

  George Carlin

  Strong, New York, Marijuana

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Forget, Heroin

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

  George Carlin

  Teacher, Talking, People

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

  Stephen Young

  Gun, Doors, World

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• I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.

  Michael Che

  Mother, Strong Women, Brother

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.

  David Banner

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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• How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

  Joan Halifax

  Mind, Looks, Libya

  Source: zenpeacemakers.org

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• I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Guy, Remembered

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Educational, Kids

  Source: themississippilink.com

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• We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iran, Want, Protection

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

  Shane Claiborne

  Boys, College, Cities

  Source: medium.com

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• A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more for a house in a better school district, they succeed only in bidding up the prices of those houses. As before, 50 percent of all children will attend schools in the bottom half of the school quality distribution. As in the familiar stadium metaphor, all stand, hoping to get a better view, only to discover that no one sees better than if all had remained seated.

  Robert H. Frank

  Children, School, Views

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

  Stan Lee

  New York, Years, Nostalgic

  Source: wwd.com

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• For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how wrong it is, violence doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people.

  Steven James

  Mean, People, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Kids, Vulnerable

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One study conducted in Washington, D.C. indicated that 3 out of 4 black men, and nearly all those living in the poorest neighborhoods could expect to find themselves behind bars at some point in their life.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, Bars

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Marijuana, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.

  Shelby Steele

  Mother, Father, Hero

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.

  Nate Powell

  Believe, Technology, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

  Halle Berry

  Kids, White, Light

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