Ghetto Quotes Quotes

“I'm not a legend... it's just the shit I do is legendary.”
― William Andrei Cunningham

“I got so much game.... I built my own Playstation”
― William Andrei Cunningham

“There are no ghettos in Heaven,
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you’ll find repentant gangsters.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.”
― Khali Raymond, Ghanport's Finest

“Prince of the Ghetto:

They hate me because I'm poor.
They despise me because I'm common.
They reject me because I fight for the ghetto.

Let me tell you about the slums.
Let me tell you about the shanties.
Let me tell you about the ghetto.

Roaches do not bother us.
Violence does not frighten us.
Reality does not intimidate us.

At birth, our portion is pain.
At birth, our portion is sorrow.
At birth, our portion is death.

We see what others do not.
We hear what others do not.
We feel what others do not.
We experience what others do not.

We laugh but there is pain in our laughter.
We sing but there is distress in our songs.
We dance but there is agony in our steps.

The world was built on our backs.
The world was built on our tears.
It was built on our misery.
It was built on our blood!

We are sons.
We are daughters.
We are mothers.
We are fathers.

We are the poor.
We are the wretched.
We are your problem.
We are the ghetto.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When you throw crumbs at hungry birds, they will kill each other fighting for them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We have torn down the worst slums. The natural meeting-points for the lumpenproletariat have been eliminated, converted into pleasant, dull, clean blocks for dull, clean, adapted families. In the absence of ghettos for the losers, they gather around the centres of pride. If Harlem and its equivalents did not exist, they would gather outside the Rockefeller Center.”
― Nils Christie, Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy

“A “bubble culture” develops whereby corporate types associate with other corporate types in corporate suburbs. The artists flee to their own enclaves. This process culminates in the self-imposed ghetto, a system whereby suburbs are defined and characterised by the people who live there.”
― Joshua Krook, Us vs Them: A Case for Social Empathy