Ghetto Quotes

• 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.

  

  Bono U2
  • Rock
  • Ghetto
  • Pop Music

• Right after we recorded 'Satanic Satanist' and 'American Ghetto' here in Boston, we decided we'd grow our hair out. This is - was - like the Beatles thing. I wanted to see these pictures later in life.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Life
  • American
  • Hair

• Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Stars
  • Expression
  • Booty

• I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

  

  Teyana Taylor
  • Fashion
  • Hood
  • Ghetto

• With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • Fighting
  • Rap
  • Teenager

• She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • She
  • Style
  • Superhero

• Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Great
  • Music
  • Business

• I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Positive
  • Projects
  • Ghetto

• There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Ghetto

• Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • School
  • High

• 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 neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

  

  will.i.am
  • Trying
  • Bills
  • Gates

• There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Ghetto

• The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Ghetto

• There are more doctors in a single North Shore medical building than in one entire West Side ghetto.

  

  Jack Starr Jack Starr's Burning Starr
  • Building
  • Doctors
  • Ghetto

• Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Today
  • Water
  • Ghetto

• The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Roots
  • Ghetto

• When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both.

  

  J Balvin
  • People
  • Moving
  • Ghetto

• I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • World
  • Together
  • Taken

• Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parent

• Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Believe
  • Poor

• Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

  

  George Gilder
  • Children
  • School
  • Boys

• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • War
  • Reality

• I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

  

  Charlemagne Palestine
  • Community
  • Musician
  • Started

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