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“I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'”

Kind Cities College Grew Grew Up Moved Raised Starting Chicago Illinois Inner City City Of Chicago

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.”

Mother Grew Grew Up Kitchen Grandfather Aunt My Grandfather

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.”

Sides New York Grew Grew Up East East Side Sicilian Italian American

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.”

Sides Grew Grew Up East Italian East Side Sicilian Italian American

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.”

Done School Church Taught Grew Grew Up My Favorite Scripture Sunday Passages Brethren Matthew Sunday School Methodists

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.”

Home Three Morning Streets Middle Grew Grew Up Train

Author:Alicia Keys

“I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.”

Middle Grew Grew Up Accents Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.”

“I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.”

Bigs Christian Mother Church Grew Grew Up Sunday Exposure Choir Midwest

Author:Michael McMillian

“I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.”

People Common Moral Moved Manners Code Honorable Decency

Author:Derek Blasberg

“I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.”

Grew Grew Up Hockey Midwest

Author:Bill Goldberg

“I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.”

Knows Seems Careers Possibility Grew Grew Up Realistic Screenwriters Midwest

Author:Diablo Cody

“I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.”

Knows Has Beens Country Guy Fighting Rights Dying Military Grew Exercise Grew Up Vote Soldier Other Countries Right To Vote

Author:Robert Griffin III

“I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.”

Television Grew Grew Up Entertainment Countryside New Zealand

Author:Kiri Te Kanawa

“I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.”

Speak Strong Church Religious Buddhism Catholic Latin Very Strong Latin America

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.”

Ifs Knows Certain Courses Lost Growing Up Growing Taught Grew Grew Up Survival Woods Canada Wilderness Lost In The Woods

Author:Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.”

Thinking Problem Grew Normal Grew Up Philippines Typhoons

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.”

Knows Important Kids Know How Grew Projects Grew Up Having Hope

Author:Carlos Mencia

“I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.”

Grew Lucky Projects Grew Up Blessed Brooklyn

Author:Tracy Morgan

“I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.”

Knows Mother Strong Four Brother Grew Drug Projects Grew Up Tough Yeah Neighborhood Killers Strong Women Dealer Gangsters Thug Macho Older Brother Drug Dealers

Author:Michael Che

“I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.”

Facts Age Our Lives Grew Grew Up Survival Horse Bells Harness Antiques Saddles Sleighs

Author:Paul Engle

“I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.”

Grew Grew Up South Virginia

Author:Jerry Falwell

“I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.”

Bigs Grew Grew Up Seventies Disco

Author:Ice Cube

“I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.”

Saws Grew Grew Up Shadow Regimes

Author:Junot Diaz

“I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.”

Eye Mother Left Grew Kings Grew Up Miles Sixty Luther Teresa Marvin Coltrane Chavez Left Eye Tito

Author:Carlos Santana

“I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.”

Political Grew Conversation Grew Up Lows Discourse Brows Milieu Political Discourse

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”

Knows Feels Mind Looks Persons Said States Night Father White Taken Middle Grew Grew Up South Terrorism Usa Segregation Middle Of The Night Obeying Frame Of Mind

Author:Alice Walker

“I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.”

Ifs Kind Jesus Grew Grew Up South Raised Pagan

Author:Amy Ray

“I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.”

Certain Levels Grew Grew Up Resources South Raised Uncertainty Grandmother Stomach Roof My Grandmother Bronx Limited Resources

Author:Joy Bryant

“I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!”

Knows Guy Force Study Air Grew Gay Grew Up Twenties Dancing South Gears Air Force Gay Guy

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.”

People Next Fun Grows Growing Up Sea Keys Grew Type Grew Up Lows South Open Minded Sociable Low Key

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I grew up in the South Side, and when we would have snow and blizzards and drifts, we would jump off the garage roof into the snow. Now if I'm up on a step ladder and I think I'm going to fall, it's a foot and a half off the ground, but I'm panicked about it. So I'm afraid of ladders and those beds.”

Ifs Thinking Fall Sides Half Steps Feet Grew Bed Grew Up South Snow Roof Ladders Garage Blizzard

Author:Jimmy Pardo

“I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.”

Ifs Thinking Age School Parent Gone Grew Cost Grew Up Prison South Valleys Realised Wales

Author:Thighpaulsandra

“I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas.”

Needs Community Grew Judgment Grew Up Sticks South Discrimination Lgbt Texas Outsiders Mold Lgbt Community

Author:Demi Lovato

“I grew up in the South where they are very, very passionate about sports, and I was the artsy kid who didn't know much about it. I found I kind of enjoyed the social aspect, and I enjoyed the tailgating. I went for the free food and the experience. But to this day, I'm still learning. You're not going to see me watching it by myself, but if there are nachos involved, I'm there.”

Kind Kids Sports Passionate This Day

Author:Tony Hale

“I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.”

People Values Taught Grew Grew Up Gun Shots South Shooting Value Of Life

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.”

Country Wanted Father My Own Grew Grew Up South Expected Core

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.”

Self Guy Grows Growing Up Self Esteem Grew Grew Up South Campaigns Esteem Torture New Orleans

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.”

Poor Rocks Grew Grew Up South Dirt Dirt Roads

Author:Tina Turner

“I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.”

War Huge Grew Grew Up South Civil War American History

Author:Anson Mount

“I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.”

Grew Grew Up South Injustice Segregation Apartheid Racial Segregation

Author:Johnnetta B. Cole

“I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.”

Father Church Grew Grew Up Ministers Southern Baptists Southern Baptist

Author:Missi Pyle

“I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.”

Country States United Cities United States Grew Late Grew Up Survival Southern Status Quo Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Angela Davis

“I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a humor book about dying.”

Years Firsts Book Mother Father Dying Brother Grew Six Grew Up Bases Shooting Crystals Accountants Smack Bronx Hashish Crystal Meth Hepatitis Hepatitis C

Author:Dave Barry

“I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”

People Way Shows Home Reading Community Challenges Chance Pieces Heard Fronts Grew Grew Up Beats Studios Performers Spoken Word Mics

Author:Macklemore

“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.”

Grew Grew Up Associates Suburbs

Author:Billy Corgan

“I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.”

Long Grew Grew Up Long Time Resources Raised Guitar Radio Rap Suburbs Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Stumble Upon

Author:Cass McCombs

“I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.”

Stills Home Childhood Grew Grew Up Suburbs Atlanta

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.”

“I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.”

Grew Grew Up Chicago Suburbs

Author:James Iha

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