“The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears”
Barbara Sizemore
“I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to (Los Angeles), stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.”
Chris Rock
“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.”
Spiro T. Agnew
“You are creating a ghetto within a ghetto.”
Robin Lee
“You can remove a man from the slums buh its hard to remove the slums out of the man..”
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“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.”
Della Reese
“He was kind of his own guy. It was like, 'He's from the ghetto, he's going to be this. He's going to be that.' But he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met.”
Mike Jensen
