Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.
Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
If I moved to L.A., I wouldn't move to a ghetto neighborhood. I'd move to some posh, fancy place.
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living; Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.
Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
I was only 20, 21. I was basically going to college to get me out of the ghetto. A friend suggested I try stand-up.
The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
I actually really like DJ Assault - a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who's produced good music that's influenced me a bit.
People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
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.
Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.
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.
I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.
I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.
Who would've thought that this little girl in the ghetto in Philly would be playing the first black lesbian superhero on network TV?
A majority of Bon Qui Qui is my little brother, who is ghetto fabulous. He has no filter whatsoever. He just says what's on his mind.
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.
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.