This collection holds 371 ghetto quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Shannon Briggs, Tupac Shakur and Ludacris.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I am from the ghetto.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

Yo' Momma, I'm a ghetto super star.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

If I could help every ghetto, I would.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

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

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

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

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

I didn't realise I lived in the ghetto until we moved out.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

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

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

'Chopper City in the Ghetto' - a lot of it was B.G.'s real story.

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.

I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.

I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

I am a spiritual, God-fearing man just playing a ghetto expressionist.

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

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

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

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

In the ghetto we didn't even know there was such a thing as a private jet.

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

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

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

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

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?

I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.

We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark

In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

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