What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, ...
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.
Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
