“I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.” ChildrenHomeLeftSupportHappenedAreasMy FamilyWoundedTornFifthFamily Support Author:Djimon Hounsou
“Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.” PeopleYearsThousandAreasMy FamilyNobleThousand YearsKnightsNaples Author:Paul Sorvino
“My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would have loved this. Even though my family is long gone from this area it still feels like home.” FeelsLongStillsHomeLastsGoneAliveDadAreasMy FamilyMy DadLast Time Author:Jorma Kaukonen
“My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area.” ParentPoorCitiesMovementInvolvedSceneAreasMy FamilyActivismReliefWealthyVolunteerUnderground Music Author:Jess Row
“That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.” KnowsWayWantTryingDifferentWould BeThreeEnergySituationGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFiguresBrotherAreasMy FamilyFascinationPsychoanalysisAlrightThree SistersI Am The Way I Am Author:Jessica Lange
“[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksColorGrewGrew UpAreasMy FamilyFolksLos AngelesCracksChicagoDetroitEpidemicsBaltimoreNucleusOakland Author:Mahershala Ali
“I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.” MotherFatherWhitePoorRichLandUnderstoodAreasMy FamilyFolksGeorgiaColumbus Author:John Henrik Clarke