Inner City Quotes

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

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.

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.

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

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?