Ghetto Life Quotes

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.

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.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself.

I am from the ghetto.

What we want in this country is not Jews who can successfully keep up their Jewishness in a few large ghettos, but men and women who have grown up in freedom and can assert themselves wherever they are. A parochial system of education among the Jews would be fatal to such hopes.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

'Chopper City in the Ghetto' - a lot of it was B.G.'s real story.

I am from the inner city, the ghetto. If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that's real, I have to do that, period.

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.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

There are still some black youth growing up in ghettoes in this country who will never know a white person—not even speak to one.

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.