- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ghetto Quotes
Real words from real struggle.
These ghetto quotes trace an honest arc from cramped apartments to grand mansions, told by voices who lived every stage of that climb. They speak to anyone shaped by a hard city upbringing and the pride of never forgetting it.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My structure has an art-form flow, and I do what I do as a form of art. I'm a ghetto expressionist, not a dirty old man.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020