83 Quotes About Ghetto


  • Author Ben Okri
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    Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

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  • Author Della Reese
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    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.

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  • Author Diana Ross
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    I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

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  • Author Retta
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    I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.

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  • Author Shawn Reynolds
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    You think people making all of this money, they'd leave the ghetto out of them. You'd think they're making millions of dollars, they'd learn to be civilized.

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  • Author Margaret Sanger
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    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.

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  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    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.

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  • Author Tupac Shakur
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    I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.

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