Diana Ross Quotes

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

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.

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

I am from the ghetto.

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to Los Angeles, stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider myself lucky. When I was aged 11, in 1998, Dad moved us to a suburban area from what was a ghetto area. It gave me a chance of survival.

I didn't grow up in the worst neighborhood. It wasn't the best either.

I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.