#inner city

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#breakthrough #came #city #else #every

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#city #dishonest #ever #freaks #i

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#change #city #educated #educated people #education

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american #city #class #concerned #even

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city. ↗

— John Kasich

#entrepreneurship #go #in my opinion #inner #inner city

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#comprehensive #i #inner #inner city #schools

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. ↗

— Allen West

#atlanta #born #city #combat #commission

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. ↗

— Bill Gates

#cleaned #educating #every #fantastic #inner

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american community #attitude #black #brown #city

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? ↗

— LeBron James

#grow #grow up #household #humbling #i