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«The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears»
Author: Barbara Sizemore | Keywords: ghetto, ghettos
«The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.»
«We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.»
«I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.»
«Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y»
«The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.»
«Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.»
Author: Eminem (Rapper) | Keywords: ghetto, ghettos, hood, on tour, tour, touring, tours
«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.»
«There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto»
«I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey (Actress, Producer) | About: Thinking | Keywords: deprived, ghetto, ghettos