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I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.
Greg Oden
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Basketball Player
Buffalo
Inner City
Inner
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I'm an inner city man, born and bred.
Liam Cunningham
/
Inner City
Bred
Inner
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I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.
Nafessa Williams
/
Inner City
Inner
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There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.
Baron Davis
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Basketball Player
Inner City
Inner
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I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
Estelle Morris
/
Comprehensive
Inner City
Taught
Inner
Schools
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You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.
John Kasich
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Former United States Representative
Entrepreneurship
Inner City
Opinion
In My Opinion
Inner
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Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.
Michael J. Knowles
/
Divorce
Inner City
Affect
Inner
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If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
Eric Bogosian
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Actor
Inner City
Dishonest
Freaks
Inner
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I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.
Colman Domingo
/
Inner City
Inner
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Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.
C. J. Mccollum
/
Inner City
Inner
Paths
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It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.
Tim Henman
/
Tennis Player
Inner City
Inner
Promote
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As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.
Reggie Miller
/
Basketball Player
Bike
Inner City
Inner
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I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
Stefon Harris
/
Vibraphonist
Cities
Inner City
Listening
Soul
Wonder
Stevie
Inner
James
Soul Music
Stevie Wonder
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Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal the basketball.
Muggsy Bogues
/
Inner City
Maryland
Inner
Steal
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
Majora Carter
/
Urban Revitalization Strategist
Decent
Inner City
Quality Of Life
Considered
Inner
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates
/
Investor
Education
Inspiring
Success
Fantastic
Inner City
Shortage
City
Cleaned
Educating
Inner
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A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
Craig Robinson
/
Inner City
Effective
Inner
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
/
Activist
Education
Access
Educated
Inner City
Produce
Responsibility
School
Educated People
Inner
Merely
Provide
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I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
Lebron James
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Basketball Player
Growing Up
Household
Humbling
Inner City
Inspiration
Mean
Grow Up
Inner
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When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.
Jesse Watters
/
Inner City
Packages
Steel
Inner
Plants
Primarily
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My dad didn't graduate high school. My mom is a high school graduate. My mom is a factory worker. My dad owned a bar in the inner city.
Jason Whitlock
/
Sportswriter
Inner City
Bar
Worker
Factory
Factory Worker
Graduate
Inner
Owned
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I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.
Nafessa Williams
/
Inner City
Philadelphia
Superhero
Inner
Reflected
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Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything. It's a special honor.
Charles Oakley
/
Basketball Player
Cleveland
Inner City
Named
Inner
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We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.
Alex Haley
/
Writer
Girl
Black
Cancer
Growing Up
Inner City
Might
Boy
City
Cure
Grow Up
Inner
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All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.
Barry Keoghan
/
Inner City
Lad
Inner
Jim
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I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
Anthony Fauci
/
Brooklyn
Inner City
Neighborhood
Warm
Embracing
Inner
Section
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I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.
Phil Heath
/
Bodybuilder
Denver
Inner City
Scholarship
Senior
By The Time
Earned
Inner
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In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.
Barry Keoghan
/
Inner City
Chase
Dig
Handed
Inner
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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
Henry Louis Gates
/
Literary Critic
Kids
Attitude
African American
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Inner City
Movement
Rights
African-American Community
Civil
Inner
Revolutionize
Rights Movement
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If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
Tom Hayden
/
Social Activist
Jobs
Data
Inner City
Lost
Riot
Surplus
Ten
Zone
City
Gaining
Inner
Instead
Ten Years
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I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.
Barry Keoghan
/
Dublin
Inner City
Acted
Audition
Inner
Signed
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We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.
Zal Batmanglij
/
Film Director
Anarchist
Farms
Inner City
Rail
City People See
Inner
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I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.
Clark Durant
/
Detroit
Income
Inner City
Life Work Believe
Bite
Gap
Inner
Sound Bite
Widening
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'IronE' stands for an eagle in flight with an unbroken spirit. I coined that term because it is indicative of my life story and the fact that I'm out of the inner city.
Irone Singleton
/
Flight
Inner City
Life Story
Unbroken
Life City My Life
Eagle
Indicative
Inner
Stands
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I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.
Sebastian Thrun
/
Educator
College Students
Inner City
Outlets
Population
Fare
Inner
Irrespective
Rates
School Kids
Surprised
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I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.
Richard Dean Anderson
/
Film Actor
Girl
Boys
Inner City
Los Angeles
Recreation
Years
Boy
Angeles
Boys And Girls
Club
Essentially
Guess
Inner
Los
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I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
/
Inner City
Inspire
Estate
Inner
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More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.
Clarence Clemons
/
Musician
Budget Cuts
Inner City
Budget
Cuts
Education Programs
Inner
Instrument
Programs
Public Schools
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Ben Carson
/
Inner City
Late
Matter
Never Too Late
Too Late
Person
Come
Life City People
Lots
City
City People
Find
Too
Excuses
Fail
Inner
Potential
Recognize
Themselves
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
Lamar Odom
/
Basketball Player
Guidance
Inner City
Needs
Planning
Remorse
Robbing
Shooting
Fail
Grasp
Inner
System
Young Men
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Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
Bob Newhart
/
Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Comedian
Degrees
Inner City
Urban
Work World Me
Did
Favorite
City
Even
Richard
Inner
Introduced
Pryor
Though
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My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Diane Abbott
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British Politician
Britain
Cities
Confined
Country
Crime
Gun
Inner City
Levels
London
Spread
Communities
Highest Levels
Inner
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I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.
Tony Evans
/
Pastor
Jesus
Broken
Changed
Forever
Inner City
Life Family Dad
Casualty
Ended
Inner
Turned
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There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
Fat Joe
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Rapper
Emergency Room
Health Care
Hours
Inner City
Rich
Dead
Drop
Emergency
Inner
Ladies
Systems
Unattended
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As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.
Cory Booker
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United States Senator
Fighting
Housing
Inner City
Jersey
Law School
New Jersey
Pay
Rights
City
Forward
Inner
Soon
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As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.
Michael Porter
/
Professor
Crucible
Groups
Inner City
Minorities
Phenomena
Immigrant
Inner
Spreading
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Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.
C. J. Mccollum
/
Inner City
Everyday Lives
Inner
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The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops.
Don Winslow
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Author
Allies
Crime
Inner City
Police
Tragedy
Violence
Communities
Cops
Inner
Lowering
Professional
Suffers
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I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'
Dwyane Wade
/
Basketball Player
Chicago
Cities
College
Illinois
Inner City
Starting
Inner
Lineup
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I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don't have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.
Richard Cabral
/
Actor
Camps
Inner City
Probation
Inner
Prisons
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