City Struggles Quotes

I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

Detroit is a hard city.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.

Newark faces real challenges.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

A great American city is fighting for its life.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you know? A lot of my music revolves around me growing up in Compton. I want to tell a different story that's never been told before, of a good kid in a mad city.

Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all this other stuff. The city was really depleted.