Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Griffith Joyner

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

James A. Baldwin

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Christopher Lasch

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

Chris Rock

When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.

Geoffrey Canada

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,'

Jessie J

My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

Mac Davis

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

Lucinda Williams

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.

Method Man

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

Mason Cooley

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Theodore White

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Kaczynski

Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

Margaret Sanger

Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.

Kimora Lee Simmons

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.

Paul Reubens

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.

Snoop Dogg

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

Vince Young

In one part of locker room, the guys have a plasma TV, so the guys in the ghetto always say, 'We're going to come get that,'

Isabel Wilkerson

The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North [still exist today.] And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.

Stevie Wonder

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

Malcolm X

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

Malcolm X

America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.

Matt Taibbi

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

Matt Taibbi

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.

Rem Koolhaas

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Selma James

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.

Sean Hannity

When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.

Jacob Lawrence

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

John Hume

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

Frank McCourt

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Jimmy Cliff

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

Elliott Abrams

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

Robert Moses

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

Thomas Sowell

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.