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“What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.”

Want Giving Seems Artist Games Right Now Hip Hop Hips Hops Neighborhood Rapper Hood Parameters

Author:Rakim

“I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.”

Writing Wells Shows Together Girl Voice Ability Grew Grew Up Female Males Credit Ran Neighborhood Household Older Sister Female Voice

Author:Wally Lamb

“If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood. And why? Because the segregated neighborhood is the one that's controlled by the ou - from the outside by others, but a separate neighborhood is a neighborhood that is independent, it's equal, it can do - it can stand on its own two feet, such as the neighborhood. It's an independent, free neighborhood, free community.”

Ifs Two Black Can Do Community White Feet Equal Independent Neighborhood Controlled All Black

Author:Malcolm X

“The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I'm trying to say.”

Needs Trying Years Said States Jobs America Certain Black Violence Trump Neighborhood Black America

Author:Jim Brown

“I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.”

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Author:Trevor Noah

“Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible. You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there's some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.”

Thinking Knows Home Certain House Levels Morning Conditions Ordinary Shame Drinking Folks Corners Get Up African American Neighborhood Coming Home Irresponsible Up Early Hanging On

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Government House Language President Differences White Conditions Responsible Barack Neighborhood White House Crucial Adopted President Barack Obama

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but our parents never found that out. In a way, you avoid telling your parents what happened to you during those days.”

Way Found Fun Parent Boys Happened Streets Neighborhood Anti Semitic Jewish Family

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.”

People Looks Black Grew Grew Up Like Me Neighborhood Latino

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.”

“I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.”

“90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.”

Ifs Saws Citizens Solutions Percent West Israel Block Neighborhood Urban Israeli Jerusalem Clusters Cranes

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.”

People Artist White Cities Economic Revolution Moved Seeking Flight Neighborhood Immigrants Phenomenon Refugee Ladders Betterment Industrial Revolution Inner City Tenements

Author:Cleve Jones

“There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.”

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Author:Cleve Jones

“The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.”

Needs Should Home Individual Students Determined Neighborhood Testing Standardized Testing

Author:Nat Hentoff

“The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes.”

Should Would Be Running Creating Stores Employment Chinese Neighborhood Employing

Author:Malcolm X

“If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.”

Ifs Want I Can Running Neighborhood Want Me

Author:Malcolm X

“Going shopping all the time. Just making money, and competing with the niggas in other neighborhoods. And the whole competition with the girls - who had the prettiest girlfriend - and going partying. It was just on. It was fun!”

Whole Girl Fun Party Competition Making Money Girlfriend Neighborhood Shopping Competing Prettiest

Author:The Notorious B.I.G.

“I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.”

Knows World Firsts Book Whole Kids Fun Diversity First Time Unions Excited Neighborhood New World Wow Soviet Soviet Union Judaism Bananas Picture Books

Author:Regina Spektor

“You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.”

Term Issues Involved Happenings Locals Neighborhood

Author:Barack Obama

“Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.”

Neighborhood Bully Orbit Pluto Neptune

Author:Mike Brown

“Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.”

Today Neighborhood Suburbs

Author:Young Thug

“All those who came out of my neighborhood before me. Beyond those you see on TV, the most important people are those who are close to you because they share the same reality.”

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Author:Young Thug

“We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.”

People Levels Vote Educated Neighborhood Get Back Basics

Author:Dolores Huerta

“In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.”

Thinking Knows Important Helping Community Walks Police Neighborhood Vehicle Cop Boston

Author:Jeff Ross

“I remember going to Shibe Park, Connie Mack, when I was a kid with my dad and my mom. I felt more neighborhood-esque. And I like the idea, and I love the new downtown ballparks. I love when the venue is situated in a vibrant part of the urban setting.”

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Author:Joe Maddon

“In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.”

Forget Numbers Neighborhood Forget It Heroin

Author:George Carlin

“First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.”

People Firsts Moments Talking Teacher Neighborhood Policemen Storekeeper

Author:George Carlin

“Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.”

World Violence Doors Gun Neighborhood Gun Violence

Author:Stephen Young

“I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.”

Knows Mother Strong Four Brother Grew Drug Projects Grew Up Tough Yeah Neighborhood Killers Strong Women Dealer Gangsters Thug Macho Older Brother Drug Dealers

Author:Michael Che

“We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.”

People Way Giving Culture Courses Opportunity Community Responsibility Protect Employment Relate Neighborhood Expecting Right Way Begging

Author:David Banner

“How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.”

Should Mind Wells Looks Streets Neighborhood Afghanistan Libya Burma Somalia

Author:Joan Halifax

“I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood.”

Guy Remembered Neighborhood

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Reality Kids Choices Grows Realizing Poverty Growing Up Streets Appreciate Available Educational Neighborhood Relative Educational System

Author:Keke Palmer

“We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.”

Want Feels Security Dangerous Willing Protection Secure Neighborhood Regions Iran Surprising Explaining Forthcoming

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.”

Sides Cities Boys College Grew Grew Up East Neighborhood Philadelphia Tennessee East Tennessee

Author:Shane Claiborne

“A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more for a house in a better school district, they succeed only in bidding up the prices of those houses. As before, 50 percent of all children will attend schools in the bottom half of the school quality distribution. As in the familiar stadium metaphor, all stand, hoping to get a better view, only to discover that no one sees better than if all had remained seated.”

Ifs Children School House Views Half Quality Succeed Percent Concepts Bottom Metaphor Familiar Expensive Neighborhood Relative Distribution Stadiums Bidding Good School School Districts

Author:Robert H. Frank

“All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its goal unless it outbids similar families for a house in a neighborhood served by such a school. Failure to do so often means having to send your kids to a school with metal detectors at the front entrance and students who score in the 20th percentile in reading and math. Most families will do everything possible to avoid having to send their kids to a school like that. But because of the logic of musical chairs, they're inevitably frustrated.”

“It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.”

“I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.”

Years New York Neighborhood Nostalgic

Author:Stan Lee

“For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how wrong it is, violence doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people.”

People Way Mean Matter Violence Neighborhood Coping Bad People

Author:Steven James

“Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.”

Kids Football Vulnerable Neighborhood

Author:Steve Almond

“One study conducted in Washington, D.C. indicated that 3 out of 4 black men, and nearly all those living in the poorest neighborhoods could expect to find themselves behind bars at some point in their life.”

Men Black Behinds Study Bars Neighborhood Poorest

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?”

People Thinking Needs Should Seems School Courses Given Accepting Serious Ought Conversation Asking Neighborhood Trapped Norm Resigned

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.”

“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.”

Ifs War White Class Middle College Periods Drug Percent Increase Possession Alcohol Middle Class Neighborhood Marijuana Tobacco Hood Campus War On Drugs College Campus Escalation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.”

Knows Way School Mother Guy Father Black Walks Streets Grew Hero Anxiety Raised Neighborhood Segregation My Hero Great Father All Black Black Guys Etcetera

Author:Shelby Steele

“I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.”

Grew Grew Up Tough Neighborhood

Author:Alicia Keys

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