Top 362 Ghetto Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?
My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
I am a spiritual, God-fearing man just playing a ghetto expressionist.
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.
Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.
On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living;
Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.
I was only 20, 21. I was basically going to college to get me out of the ghetto. A friend suggested I try stand-up.
You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.
We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.
You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.
The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what's been happening in the ghetto.
Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.
For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.
Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.
Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.
Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
I am from the inner city, the ghetto. If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that's real, I have to do that, period.
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.
When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.
