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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private. Francesca Annis

Strong Wife Year Before Ghetto Charles Through Had He Sharon Leaving Private Been Very Tate Roman Much Manson Warsaw

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.' G. Willow Wilson

Women Black Girl Books Ghetto Characters Only Write Writers Allowed Put Women Writers Want Literary Which Create

I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff. Gavin McInnes

Punk Ghetto Punk Rock Rap Stuff Like Rock Snob

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. Gloria Steinem

When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both. J Balvin

While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto. Jacob Weisberg

Life Book Better Corner Ghetto Kind Simon Fact Wire He Feels Wrote Baltimore Same In Fact Depiction Burns Which While Realism Title Naturalistic Based Earlier Set

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects. James Wolcott

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. Jean Genet

Great People Humiliation Wind Saw Ghetto Carrying Only Shame Had Almost Dropped Invisibility Over Gentle Been Friendly Little Centuries Breeze Swept Away Four

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. Jess Walter

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Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand. Jimmy Iovine

Death Music Great Business Dangerous Ghetto Out Great Music Something Guys Could Had Knew Nobody Make Because Felt Understand Were Bunch Just Wanted Unfortunately Who Element Row

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. Joel Kinnaman

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I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me. KRS-One

Me Heart Ghetto Came Suburbia

I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect. Karen Robards

Respect Ghetto Out Writers Call Because Came Get Romance Little

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. Klaus Kinski

You Yourself Ghetto Find Over Leap Another Wall

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Lionel Blue

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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. Mac Davis

Ghetto Write Been Years Trying

'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label. Mannie Fresh

Money Changed Ghetto Rap City Cash Bounce Talk Real Label

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in. Mannie Fresh

Living Ghetto City Recorded House

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' Mason Cooley

Faithful Liberal Ghetto Stay Version Roots Your

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go. Method Man

You Everywhere Ghetto Go Just Now

Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent years. Ghetto youth are transferred from their decrepit, underfunded, racially segregated schools to brand-new high-tech prisons located in white rural counties. Michelle Alexander

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