Ghetto Quotes
Real words from real struggle.
These ghetto quotes trace an honest arc from cramped apartments to grand mansions, told by voices who lived every stage of that climb. They speak to anyone shaped by a hard city upbringing and the pride of never forgetting it.
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
Being Quotes
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
Black Quotes
My structure has an art-form flow, and I do what I do as a form of art. I'm a ghetto expressionist, not a dirty old man.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Born Quotes
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.
City Quotes
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.
