J Balvin

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.

Colombian Musician

Jimmy Cliff

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

Jamaican Musician

Ice Cube

I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

American Musician

Nafessa Williams

Most superhero shows are set in an alternative universe. 'Black Lightning' is literally in the hood. He's going inside of the ghetto and trying to make a difference.

American Actress

G. Willow Wilson

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.

American Writer

Florence Griffith Joyner

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

American Athlete

Toyah Willcox

If you don't protect the NHS, you're going to have health ghettoes where people can't get treated.

English Musician

Suge Knight

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

American Producer

George Blanda

They don't have to tell me what life is like in a ghetto.

American Football Player

Jay Rock

Often implies poverty, crime, and segregation, used carefully to avoid offense.

Negative Connotation

Not a synonym for 'poor'; refers specifically to a dense, urban area.

Not Interchangeable

Can describe social isolation in various settings, not just physical ones.

Broad Application

Used metaphorically, may not refer to actual physical space.

Figurative Use

When referring to Jewish ghettos, denote historical suffering and persecution.

Historical Gravity

Originally European concept, locations like the Warsaw ghetto are well-known.

Geographic Specificity

Used to describe something with street-cred or related to hip-hop culture.

Cultural Reference

Appropriate in casual conversation, less so in formal contexts.

Informal Speech

 yes, it's true, the Internet connected all of us, but we also know that the Internet created these echo chambers and political ghettos in which for all your life you can stay with the political community you belong to. And it's becoming more and more difficult to understand the people who are not like you. I know that many people here

Ivan Krastev: Can...

 we shouldn't underestimate the way in which, by contributing to the loss of identity and self-respect, urban zoning and misguided, inhumane architecture have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred. Over time, the united city has morphed into a city center with ghettos along its circumference.

How Syria's architecture...

 this population was forced to live in crowded urban ghettos with poor sanitation. Ideal conditions for the tuberculosis bacterium to thrive. In these environments, where TB posed an especially high threat, those individuals who were not carriers of any genetic protection

An evolutionary...

 We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. In the end, stories move like whirling dervishes, drawing circles beyond circles. They connect all humanity, regardless of identity politics, and that is the good news.

The politics of fiction...

 across the street yeah I'm a poor black child from the ghettos these things make me different from you but the things we have in common set me apart from most of the people in my community and I'm in between these two worlds with enough of

Greening the ghetto -...

 in in new york and while i'm in there some a girl from lithuania was asked why she wanted to be a part of the workshop and she said because i want to photograph um the ghettos of bits of um to get to the bronzeville brownsville

Reframing Black History...

 because to everyone on the outside, it was the ghetto. At worst, a place of violence; at best, a blank slate. Neither was true, of course. So my colleagues and I, we reached out to StoryCorps. And with their support,

What if gentrification...

 Yeah, I'm a poor black child from the ghetto. These things make me different from you. But the things we have in common set me apart from most of the people in my community, and I am in between these two worlds

Majora Carter: Greening...

 that my personal passion project was not a brand fit because they didn't want their logos stamped across the ghettos of Haiti. Now, I wasn't just obsessed. I was outraged. So I decided, kind of told myself,

Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...

 thank you so much we are called the triplets ghetto kids and I'm the spoken person of the triplets thank you for coming

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