Top Ghetto Quotes
Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith Joyner
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
Stokely Carmichael
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason Cooley
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?
Suge Knight
Lionel Blue 
Bob Cousy 
Diana Ross 
Rick Moody 
Phyllis Diller 
Eldridge Cleaver 
Mac Davis 
Quincy Jones 
Klaus Kinski 
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
Quincy Jones 
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There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Phyllis Diller
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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.
Lionel Blue
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You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
Klaus Kinski
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
Diana Ross
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