South Side Chicago Quotes

#1. I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

Bernie Mac

#2. I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

Quincy Jones

#3. I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

George Saunders

#4. I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

Mandy Patinkin

#5. If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Mark Helprin

#6. And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

Michelle Obama

#7. I honestly have never been a guy to panic or freak out in the middle of a crisis. Growing up in the south side of Chicago will make you pretty resilient.

Jonathan Sadowski

#8. Smile. Be open and welcoming.

Ephraim Buchwald

#9. In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Luther Allison

#10. Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Bruce Lee

#11. He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.

William Kent Krueger

#12. Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.

Charles Wheelan

#13. There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

Mark Kirk

#14. I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

Sara Paretsky

#15. Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

Michelle Obama

#16. We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

Rand Paul

#17. I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.

Shani Davis

#18. Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#19. I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

Bernie Mac

#20. Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

Brennan Manning

#21. Today, as young French and Dutch Muslims wander through Upper Manhattan and Chicago's South Side, it's not uncommon to see European politicians, journalists, and activists in those same urban areas, visiting mosques and community centers trying to identify "best practices" they can take back home.

Hisham D. Aidi

#22. Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

Adam D'Angelo

#23. A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.

Jack Hyles

#24. Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

Doug Larson

#25. I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

Common

#26. It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

Ruben Martinez

#27. The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Elizabeth Berg

#28. I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

Kel Mitchell