Quotes of: Inner-city Keyword

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Estelle Morris

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

Richard Dean Anderson

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

William Julius Wilson

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

Jack Bruce

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

Vincent Frank

Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

will.i.am

Is your inner vampire different from your...outer vampire?' 'Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.' 'So your inner vampire is Magnus?

City of Lost Souls

He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised in poo...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you can't" or "you won't" or "why bother." More than anything else, mastering that faith, on cue, is what separated him from his peers, a...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomin...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Jordan doesn't really care about the blood," Simon said now. "His whole thing is about me being comfortable with what I am. Get in touch with your inner vampire, blah, blah." Clary slid in next to him onto the bed and hugged a pillow. "Is your inner ...

City of Lost Souls

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't p...

Tim Meadows

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

Eric Bogosian

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

John Kasich

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Bill Gates