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

Men Sometimes Young Black Nice Car Driving Expensive Rolling Ghetto Really Nice Neighbourhoods Black Ghetto Expensive Cars

Author:Coolio

“I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.”

Black Rays Ghetto Black Ghetto

Author:Coolio

“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.”

Heart America Black White Block Chicago Black And White Ghetto Gangsters Black Ghetto

Author:Quincy Jones

“In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.”

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Author:Cornel West

“One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.”

People Has Beens Young Speak Black Struggle Growing Racism Organization Tragedy Racist Black People Urban Ghetto Militancy Against Racism Black Ghetto

Book:What we want

Source: What we want

“Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”

Persons Black Groups Average Sensitive Minorities Immigrants Activist Oppressed Privileged Asian Disabled Ghetto Terminology Dwellers Abused Women Black Ghetto

Book:Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.

Source: Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.

“America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.”

Men Has Beens America Black White Talking Democracy Dangerous Sight Structure Corners Threatening Ghetto Around The Corner Keep Talking Northerners White Power Black Ghetto

Author:Malcolm X

“I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.”

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Author:Don King

“Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.”

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Author:Saul Williams

“The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).”

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Book:Black Theology and Black Power

Source: Black Theology and Black Power

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

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Author:Jacob Lawrence