Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eartha Kitt

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

Carlos Mencia

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

Diana Ross

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

Richard Williams

We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.

Bobby Sands

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Ben Stein

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

Ben Okri

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.

Adolf Hitler

As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.

Young Jeezy

When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

Bono

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Bono

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Elie Wiesel

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Elie Wiesel

Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?

Don King

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

Coolio

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

Dick Gregory

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

Cornel West

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Della Reese

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.

Anton LaVey

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

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.

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.

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.

Jean Genet

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

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 Brown

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

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.

Jessie J

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

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,'

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.