Slum Quotes

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.