#ghetto

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#bronx #childhood #college #complete #early

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood. ↗

— Coolio

#black #car #driving #expensive #get

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bank #bank account #checks #ghetto #little

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ghetto #liberal #roots #stay #version

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. ↗

— Diana Ross

#call #detroit #ghetto #i #part

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#expression #ghetto #i #just #star

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#find #ghetto #leap #over #wall

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#because #ghetto #good #i #important

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto. ↗

— Junior Seau

#i #living #living proof #make #out