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“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 H. White quotes (English Journalist, Historian and Novelist, 1915-1986)

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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 quotes (American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work, 1901-1978)
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“When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.”
Leonardo DiCaprio quotes (American Actor, b.1974)
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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. Do y”
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“There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto”
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“The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears”
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“The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.”
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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 quotes (American television personality,Actress and Producer, b.1954)
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“I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.”
Spiro T. Agnew quotes (American Vice President, 1918-1996)

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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 quotes

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“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.”
Jean Genet quotes (French criminal turned Novelist and Dramatist. Leading figure in the avant garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd. 1910-1986)

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“We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.”
Richard Williams quotes

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“Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.”
Eminem quotes (American Rapper. b.1972)
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