Neighborhood Issues Quotes

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

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

Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.

If aldermen are doing their job right, they should be the ones who are closest to the vibe and the beat in their neighborhood and have a very important role to play on a number of different issues, but not a unilateral, unchecked right. That's gone as soon as I take office.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.

I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

Look, there's no question that we have a challenge with gun violence. But there's a lot more nuanced parts of that narrative, and that's the part that I think that we have to make sure that we emphasize along with all the great things that are going on in Chicago, particularly in our neighborhoods.

I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead.

You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune.

I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

I'm trying to get other niggas off the streets.