Inner City Quotes - Page 3

• People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

  Michael Jai White

  Uplifting, Cities, People

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• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

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• In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.

  Mya

  Art, Children, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

  Questlove

  Cities, Cracks, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

  Paul Reubens

  Ghetto, Cities, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Community, African American

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

  Alex Haley

  Cities, Black, Crime

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, America, Rebuilding

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

  Mary J. Blige

  Sorry, Party, Responsibility

  "Oprah Talks to Mary J. Blige". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2006.

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• Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs. I will do more for African-Americans and Latinos than Hillary Clinton can ever do in 10 lifetimes.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Cities, African American

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no jobs. African Americans are living in hell in our - in the inner cities. I mean, they're living - they're living in hell. You walk to the store for a loaf of bread; you get shot.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Mean, Cities

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

  Ansel Elgort

  School, Cutting, Cities

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It's taken a hundred years or more for some of these places [inner cities] to evolve and they evolved many of them very badly, but we're going to work very hard on health and health care.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Years, Cities

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

  LeBron James

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Mean

  "Transcript: LeBron James Talks to 'Good Morning America'". Interview With Robin Roberts, abcnews.go.com. July 9, 2010.

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• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Attitude, Kids, Rights

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• When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.

  Helen Prejean

  Color, Cities, Office

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• It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cities, Excuse You, People

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• As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Player, Cities

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• It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Cities, Discipline

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• Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Cities, Morality

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• Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Cities, Gone

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• The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?

  Thomas Sowell

  Book, Hypocrite, Ghetto

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• How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Children, School, Cities

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Gun, Cities

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.215, Canongate Books

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• I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.

  Daniel Tosh

  Sports, Country, Believe

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