Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.
I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.
It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood
To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.
I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power. " But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.
In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.
You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A. T. &T. , and U. S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.
When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood. And why? Because the segregated neighborhood is the one that's controlled by the ou - from the outside by others, but a separate neighborhood is a neighborhood that is independent, it's equal, it can do - it can stand on its own two feet, such as the neighborhood. It's an independent, free neighborhood, free community.
I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.
When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.
I'd like to do a reality show with four white people. . . who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called. . . Cracker Hunt.