A Quote by Tracy Morgan

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

Tracy Morgan

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Frustration Ghetto Growing Growing Up Hard Poverty Pretty Up

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Tracy Morgan
American - Actor
Born: November 10, 1968

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Vanessa Marcil

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

Manny Montana

We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

Andre Braugher

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

Snoop Dogg

I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.

Deshaun Watson

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.

Carter G. Woodson

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Mr. T

I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at.

Delano Johnson

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Robert Kennedy

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Lupita Nyong'o

I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard and they went to bed hungry, but they fed us. Then my father became an ambassador, so I ended up being driven by chauffeurs. And then we became refugees. After that, I looked at it through this "glass" of to have and have not, and at the end of the day, who actually helps, who actually steps up, who is there for you.