“ We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous. ”
- Richard Williams- Copy
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“ Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. ”
- Ben Okri- Copy
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“ A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time. ”
- Daniel Handler- Copy
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“ Many people never treated this as an opera, but as a musical, a kind of musical ghetto. ”
- Simon Estes- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. ”
- Florence Griffith Joyner- Copy
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“ If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto… ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
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“ As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives… ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. ”
- Ben Okri- Copy
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“ How good a Little League coach was I? I was a little hyper. One thing I learned was that talent comes from everywhere; it doesn't have to come just from the ghetto. But in Beverly Hills, because Daddy has a grocery store, the kids lack a lot of try. ”
- James Caan- Copy
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“ The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and — above all — economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters. ”
- Kenneth B. Clark- Copy
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“ The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder — in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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