Quotes on the topic: Ghetto


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I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.


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


Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.


I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.


There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.


One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'


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


We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'


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.


In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'


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.


The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.


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.


I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.


Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.


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.


I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.


I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.


There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.


It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.