Ghetto Life Quotes

#1. Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price's tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history.

Ishmael Reed

#2. The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.

Mordechai Anielewicz

#3. Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

Alan Cooper

#4. Before annihilation comes an exile from Nature, and then only through wonder and transcendence, the Ghetto rabbi taught, may one combat the psychic disintegration of everyday life.

Diane Ackerman

#5. I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Tony Harrison

#6. To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

Two Chainz

#7. For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

Barry Commoner

#8. Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

George Herbert

#9. 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

#10. Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

Ben Okri

#11. At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.

Julie Anne Peters

#12. When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.

Chris Rock

#13. I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

Bob Cousy

#14. 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.

Ben Okri

#15. Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void.

Marlon James

#16. Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

John McLaughlin

#17. I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

Tom Hiddleston

#18. I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don't have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

Khali Raymond

#19. It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.

Felix Alexander

#20. But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.

Sherrod Brown

#22. Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

Marianne Williamson

#23. 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

#24. Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Tupac Shakur

#25. Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

Orrin Woodward

#26. The stairway to heaven is not a sweeping spiral vanishing to infinity but a tiny step that leads to the next step.

Chloe Thurlow

#27. This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Carter G. Woodson

#28. For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

Suge Knight

#29. There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Anthony Trollope

#30. 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.

Lady Saw

#31. Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

Snoop Dogg

#32. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Will.i.am