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- 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
I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could help every ghetto, I would.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.
- Armenians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
- Harassment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ghetto music of my era is hip-hop. And Parliament, and Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye, that was all the ghetto stuff when I was a baby, and then when I was a teenager it was hip-hop and we were taking all those old '70s sounds and recreating them and putting them into a hip-hop format.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.
- Colour
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Atomic Bomb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020