Ghetto Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Rocks, Idols

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

  Coolio

  Black, Rays, Black Ghetto

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• If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.

  Erin Belieu

  Done, Serious, Problem

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also a requirement to the minorities themselves. Because, I repeat myself, a ghetto existence is not very nice.

  Norbert Elias

  Nice, Existence, Assimilation

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it brings literature, the arts out of the ghetto.

  Wole Soyinka

  Art, Believe, Talking

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• We have to give people the freedom to choose lifestyles and material satisfactions that suit their needs, and we have to redefine need itself. We can't redefine need among ghetto people by telling them we should all give up our TV sets or automobiles: we have to tell them there's enough to go around, now let's talk about using it sensibly.

  Murray Bookchin

  Giving Up, People, Satisfaction

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up.

  Rick James

  Brother, Growing Up, Blessing

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, People, Downtown

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much like Africans are doing now that became like their "ghetto". Obviously, there are immense differences in Romani culture - there is more of a distrust of the outside and less willingness to integrate that stopped it from happening. The illiteracy rate is still very high, and they are still very much keeping themselves sectioned off from the rest of the community. I don't think that's going to happen with the African community.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Facts

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• The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Sports, Country

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.220, Random House

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• You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

  Junot Diaz

  Smart, Boys, Men

  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". Book by Junot Diaz, ew.com. September 6, 2007.

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• The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Distance, Space, Organization

  Kenneth E. Boulding (2017). “Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms”, p.149, Routledge

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• I've always felt very convicted that I didn't want to work in kind of the Christian film-making ghetto. My calling was always to show myself approved and worthy to work at the highest level possible in terms of craft and working with very gifted people and trying to be excellent in everything.

  Brian Bird

  Christian, People, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  People, Different, Israeli

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Media, Ideas

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• 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.

  Malcolm X

  School, Cities, Yesterday

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.125, Ballantine Books

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• The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.

  Pat Swindall

  Christian, Religious, People

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• 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.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  African American, Migration, Today

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

  Sean Hannity

  Fighting, Sound, Racist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

  Wyclef Jean

  Dad, Church, Ministers

  Source: djbooth.net

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• There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

  Tyler Perry

  Beautiful, Block, School

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

  Larry Wilmore

  Style, Hollywood, Jam

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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.

  Lucinda Williams

  Emotional, Thinking, Self

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Running, Sweat, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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