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Letter "G" » ghettos
«The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears»
«The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
African, dickens, dweller, dwellers, Falstaff, for example, ghetto, ghettos, largeness, The characters, Turgenev
«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.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
| Keywords:
ghetto, ghettos, guided, guided missile, guided missiles, heart and soul, in writing, missile, on the books, suburbia, succeeded, The Twist, twist, write on
«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.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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breeze, dropped, gentle wind, ghetto, ghettos, humiliation, invisibility, swept
«There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto»
«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.»
«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.»
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