(22 quotes found)
“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
“I am totally in support of this bill. Everyone who lives in the ghetto lives within 1,500 feet of a housing project or a school.”
Carolyn Nah
“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
“In one part of locker room, the guys have a plasma TV, so the guys in the ghetto always say, 'We're going to come get that,' ”
Vince Young
“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
“Everybody calls this the ghetto.”
Sandi Reeder
“I grew up in a very loving two-parent household in the middle of one of the worst ghettos in New York City, ... I didn't know I lived in the ghetto until I was like 20, 19. I came to LA with Eddie Murphy and stayed at hotels and all this stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared. I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and had crack heads.”
“They remind me of the deportation of the Jews out of Europe to the Warsaw ghetto. It's a horrible thing.”
Sherry Cooper
