#ghetto

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#as far as #certain #church #concerned #despicable

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. ↗

— Rick Moody

#am #conquered #conquering #ghetto #having

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#expression #ghetto #i #just #star

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. ↗

— Della Reese

#born #ghetto #ground #i #i was born

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

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#find #ghetto #leap #over #wall

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat? ↗

— Suge Knight

#ghetto #how #rat #you

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#because #ghetto #good #i #important

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't? ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#big house #cars #enjoying #ghetto #house

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#element #enough #fair #get #ghetto