“They should think carefully on how to avoid the sort of ghetto phenomenon.”
Nicholas Lemann
“Well, I think you have to be a total ghetto to get that. We were never quite there. Close, but no cigar.”
Jim O'Brien
“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
“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival.”
Christopher Lasch
“Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the story of this young, teenage, lost, crazy, out-of-control kid and a baby that he hides from his friends.”
Gavin Hood
