#ghetto

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

#deprived #early #early age #ghetto #girl

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #cabaret #career #dope #dream

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#confined #deal #education #forces #fundamental

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. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control. ↗

— John Hume

#charge #control #council #deliberately #ensure

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place. ↗

— Method Man

#matter #over #place #where #you

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go. ↗

— Method Man

#ghetto #go #just #now #you

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. ↗

— Diana Ross

#call #detroit #ghetto #i #part

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

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