Ghetto Quotes

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.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

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

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

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

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.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

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.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

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.