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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Diana Ross

American Actress

Born: Mar 26, 1944

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Ghetto, Brought, Detroit, Part, Call, Up, Used

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For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive. Suge Knight

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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. Bobby Sands

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The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools. Jonathan Kozol

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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions. Young Thug

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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that. Damian Marley

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