Quotes About Ghetto

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

The Axis was growing bolder in the final months of 1940. Japan invaded Vietnam, expanding its empire in East Asia. The Nazis confiscated the private radios and telephones of Jewish families and cordoned off the Warsaw Ghetto with barbed wire, trapping 400,000 adults and children, most of them Polish Jews.

A victim of his environment, the ghetto child begins his school career, psychologically, socially, and physically disadvantaged.

Ideology is a ghetto where reason goes to die

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.

It was only after the war that I found out who had knocked that night. It was an inspector of the Hungarian police, a friend of my father's. Before we entered the ghetto, he had told us, "Don't worry. I'll warn you if there is danger." Had he been able to speak to us that night, we might still have been able to flee … But by the time we succeeded in opening the window, it was too late. There was nobody outside.

The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.

Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.

The ghetto was not guarded. One could enter and leave as one pleased. Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Sobbing, she begged us to come with her to her village where she had prepared a safe shelter. My father wouldn't hear of it. He told me and my big sisters,"If you wish, go there. I shall stay here with your mother and the little one …" Naturally, we refused to be separated.

The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.     SOME

Then I walk back over the bridge, through the old Jewish ghetto

If I moved to L.A., I wouldn't move to a ghetto neighborhood. I'd move to some posh, fancy place.

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

ghetto to describe low-income African American neighborhoods, created by public policy, with a shortage of opportunity, and with barriers to exit. No other term succinctly describes this combination of characteristics, so I use the term as well.†

Back down to the ghetto again," I said. "Good for you," Hawk said. "Give you a chance to be a minority." "I like you," I said. "I am a minority.

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around. "More shootings," Papa says quietly. His face is gray.

But what about the Jews? If even people of our own country did not try to help us when we were put into the ghetto, why would these foreigners want to save us? It is very lonely being Jewish, I think. And confusing.

He had orders to demolish the whole ghetto, and he and his men were doing so, when he flew over the courtyard. And guess what? The spotlight on his plane shone down and he saw…" Papa pauses. We all lean in to hear more. "He saw our yellow stars!

Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That's what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.

Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants. For most of us it's both - and a lot more complicated.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.