Quotes About Ghetto Living

#1. When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

Malcolm X

#2. Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.

Susan Nathan

#3. Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

Tammy Baldwin

#4. I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

Junior Seau

#5. All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much.

Joseph Conrad

#6. And don't miss Frank Otto, the world's most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn't commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink!

Sara Gruen

#7. The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

Robin S. Sharma

#8. I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in.

Tavi Gevinson

#9. With one sentence and two steps, forever began. Till Page walked through my door for the very first time.

Aly Martinez

#10. 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.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#11. We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

Newt Gingrich

#12. I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet

Habeeb Akande

#13. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.

Bill Vaughan

#14. What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.

Daniel A. D'Aniello

#15. Every new situation requires new strategy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.

Ernest J. Gaines

#17. Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living;
Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.

DMX

#18. Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do ... stay in the studio.

Al Jourgensen

#19. I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you come from or sexual orientation.

Common

#20. Psychologically, Japanese women depend largely on each other. In their sex-segregated society, they could be criticized for living in a female ghetto, and yet they have what some American feminists are trying to build, a "women's culture" with its own customs, values and even language.

Kittredge Cherry

#21. Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

Rita Mae Brown

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

Snoop Dogg

#23. Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.

Marlon James