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Someone informed us that there was a pregnant woman [ Abigail ] in a ghetto and that we needed to do something. – Pascaline Agoton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's much more difficult to find a job when you're North African and you live in the ghetto, when you say your name and your address, you're already off to a bad start. – Philippe Pujol	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They put us in the ghetto and leave us there, without checking if we're alright and whether we've got something to eat, no, they just leave us here and that's it. – Nasser Rebouh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Life is like a blind date;— wait; can my “ghetto-brothers” relate? Keep your faith cause enemies talk be hard to translate, time can never be late so homie Keep your head up in ya motivated ways only one life to live; so Homie get paid. -MillYentei – Deshawn Yeldell	added by MillYentei.L.D.Y 3 years ago
M.O.M.S.= mothers of murdered sons. When I wrote this in my book-(c)-2000- profiles in courage of ghetto mothers- isbn # 1584700416- it was done with that passion within me for my people, and the love I have and seen from those who are poor. I have seen many lives gone astray because of poverty and the ways it forces some of us to live- homeless-in prisons- drug dependent- losing one's sense of purpose- losing one's life. My life's work so far, is spent in helping others not to lose their way. This is why I also created my reggae to heal the nations. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
R.E.G.G.A.E = means redefining ghetto genius anywhere everywhere or anytime everytime. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by jahmantafari1 5 years ago
For me, I like bringing lamb out to tailgates, i think lamb grills out fast, it's delicious and it's a little different than your classic tailgate items. Skirt steak is also one of my personal favorites. You marinate it, throw it in a Ziploc bag, total ghetto style, and it cooks real fast. – Ash Fulk	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Money and power is the biggest rat race in our nation today. It is the root of every evil, to gain more control over the poor to keep them in castration. In these modern times, money and power rules. Starting from the top to the bottom, of the hierarchy. Both coming from old money and new money. The split between being born rich with a silver spoon in your mouth, or being born poor living in Ghetto. Or the unforeseen fortune of the poor moving from rags to riches. To eat from the same rich man's plate.” – Jamela Dunbar	added by Eside 5 years ago
The Tiber is a river swollen with glory and pain. On one side the fortune of the popes, on the other the suffering of the Jewish Ghetto. Above ... a pulsating, splendid city; below, under the bridges, the desperation of the homeless. – South African artist William Kentridge	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I can put myself in their shoes because I was once in them, i don't justify it because I don't think you can justify it, but at the end of the day I understand how they can get to that point. They're young and vulnerable. It's the same way that a kid in the ghetto joins a gang. – Abu Hurriya	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't justify it because I don't think you can justify it, but at the end of the day I understand how they can get to that point. They're young and vulnerable. It's the same way that a kid in the ghetto joins a gang. – Abu Hurriya	Found on CNN 8 years ago
While a lot of focus is on policing, development is the answer, there are more jobs to be had in the ghetto than there are people. – The Rev. Jesse Jackson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
speak ghetto. It's unfortunate that this environment was created in a 911 call center, because it made it difficult for these women to take 911 calls and that in itself is a public safety risk in my opinion. – Joseph Pometto	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very 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. – Eldridge Cleaver	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Someone informed us that there was a pregnant woman [ Abigail ] in a ghetto and that we needed to do something.

– Pascaline Agoton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's much more difficult to find a job when you're North African and you live in the ghetto, when you say your name and your address, you're already off to a bad start.

– Philippe Pujol

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They put us in the ghetto and leave us there, without checking if we're alright and whether we've got something to eat, no, they just leave us here and that's it.

– Nasser Rebouh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Life is like a blind date;— wait; can my “ghetto-brothers” relate? Keep your faith cause enemies talk be hard to translate, time can never be late so homie Keep your head up in ya motivated ways only one life to live; so Homie get paid. -MillYentei

– Deshawn Yeldell

added by MillYentei.L.D.Y
3 years ago

M.O.M.S.= mothers of murdered sons. When I wrote this in my book-(c)-2000- profiles in courage of ghetto mothers- isbn # 1584700416- it was done with that passion within me for my people, and the love I have and seen from those who are poor. I have seen many lives gone astray because of poverty and the ways it forces some of us to live- homeless-in prisons- drug dependent- losing one's sense of purpose- losing one's life. My life's work so far, is spent in helping others not to lose their way. This is why I also created my reggae to heal the nations.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

R.E.G.G.A.E = means redefining ghetto genius anywhere everywhere or anytime everytime.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
5 years ago

For me, I like bringing lamb out to tailgates, i think lamb grills out fast, it's delicious and it's a little different than your classic tailgate items. Skirt steak is also one of my personal favorites. You marinate it, throw it in a Ziploc bag, total ghetto style, and it cooks real fast.

– Ash Fulk

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Money and power is the biggest rat race in our nation today. It is the root of every evil, to gain more control over the poor to keep them in castration. In these modern times, money and power rules. Starting from the top to the bottom, of the hierarchy. Both coming from old money and new money. The split between being born rich with a silver spoon in your mouth, or being born poor living in Ghetto. Or the unforeseen fortune of the poor moving from rags to riches. To eat from the same rich man's plate.”

– Jamela Dunbar

added by Eside
5 years ago

The Tiber is a river swollen with glory and pain. On one side the fortune of the popes, on the other the suffering of the Jewish Ghetto. Above ... a pulsating, splendid city; below, under the bridges, the desperation of the homeless.

– South African artist William Kentridge

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I can put myself in their shoes because I was once in them, i don't justify it because I don't think you can justify it, but at the end of the day I understand how they can get to that point. They're young and vulnerable. It's the same way that a kid in the ghetto joins a gang.

– Abu Hurriya

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't justify it because I don't think you can justify it, but at the end of the day I understand how they can get to that point. They're young and vulnerable. It's the same way that a kid in the ghetto joins a gang.

– Abu Hurriya

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While a lot of focus is on policing, development is the answer, there are more jobs to be had in the ghetto than there are people.

– The Rev. Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

speak ghetto. It's unfortunate that this environment was created in a 911 call center, because it made it difficult for these women to take 911 calls and that in itself is a public safety risk in my opinion.

– Joseph Pometto

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very 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.

– Eldridge Cleaver

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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