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Ghetto Quotes

I think it’s a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn’t seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that’s ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations Picture Quote #1

I don’t hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I’ve done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it Picture Quote #1

There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry Picture Quote #1

Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we’re turned away, sent to the ghetto Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The trouble is not that schools don’t work; they do. They’re excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools Picture Quote #1

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I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won Picture Quote #1

There are so many bad influences out there. I don’t care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don’t clean it up soon, we’re all going to pay the price Picture Quote #1

There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto Picture Quote #1

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives Picture Quote #1

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Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism Picture Quote #1

It’s dangerous to be a child star, but it’s dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied Picture Quote #1

Growing up, I didn’t dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out Picture Quote #1

Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they’re easy to get Picture Quote #1

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too Picture Quote #1

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto Picture Quote #1

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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I’ll defend men today who are involved in it Picture Quote #1

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have Picture Quote #1

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did Picture Quote #1

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis Picture Quote #1

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I’ve used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don’t lead there, whatever Picture Quote #1

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money Picture Quote #1

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Teachers are everything. I mean, you’re a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican Picture Quote #1

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months Picture Quote #1

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn’t taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I’m I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I’m supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis Picture Quote #1

When I first heard rap, I wasn’t quick to be critical. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what’s been happening in the ghetto Picture Quote #1

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I think it’s a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn’t seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that’s ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations (Ghetto Quotes) I don’t hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I’ve done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it (Ghetto Quotes) There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry (Ghetto Quotes) Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we’re turned away, sent to the ghetto (Ghetto Quotes) 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 (Ghetto Quotes) The trouble is not that schools don’t work; they do. They’re excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools (Ghetto Quotes) I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents. (Ghetto Quotes) 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. (Ghetto Quotes) Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won (Ghetto Quotes) There are so many bad influences out there. I don’t care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don’t clean it up soon, we’re all going to pay the price. (Ghetto Quotes) There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto (Ghetto Quotes) Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. (Ghetto Quotes) Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. (Ghetto Quotes) It’s dangerous to be a child star, but it’s dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied. (Ghetto Quotes) Growing up, I didn’t dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out. (Ghetto Quotes) Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they’re easy to get. (Ghetto Quotes) We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. (Ghetto Quotes) This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. (Ghetto Quotes) I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I’ll defend men today who are involved in it. (Ghetto Quotes) Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. (Ghetto Quotes) Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. (Ghetto Quotes) Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. (Ghetto Quotes) Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I’ve used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don’t lead there, whatever. (Ghetto Quotes) We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money. (Ghetto Quotes) Teachers are everything. I mean, you’re a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican. (Ghetto Quotes) The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months. (Ghetto Quotes) If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn’t taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I’m I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I’m supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know? (Ghetto Quotes) 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. (Ghetto Quotes) My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. (Ghetto Quotes) When I first heard rap, I wasn’t quick to be critical. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what’s been happening in the ghetto. (Ghetto Quotes)

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