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“Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion...”
“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of yo...”
“Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?”
“Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.”
“The tricky thing about the hood is that youre always working, working, working, and you feel like somethings happening, but really nothings happening at all.”
“There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.”
“I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.”
“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.”
