Disadvantaged Neighborhood Quotes

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

I am from the ghetto.

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

Where I lived in Glasgow looked like Dresden after the war. It was a bomb site. I don't think I'd ever played football on grass until I moved to Australia.

You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

Growing up in Orangeburg, I didn't know that I lived in the 'corridor of shame.' I was the son of a single mom who learned to read from comic books. My grandparents helped raise me.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.