“I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.” NeedsPlayKidsParentEuropeInstrumentsSingle Parent Author:Ville Valo
“Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.” WayFirstsKindShowsKidsEnjoyEuropeEmbrace Author:Theophilus London
“I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.” ThinkingKnowsSoulStatesKidsAgeBlackParticularInternetEuropeDeeperGet BetterObscureFunkBlack Music Author:Lenny Kravitz
“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.” KidsSchoolLanguageFourHigh SchoolEuropeEducation SystemHeroinAk 47 Author:Eddie Griffin
“As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.” WayKidsDealsColorAchievementEuropeTasksWorkersImmigrantsSouthernCitizenshipEasternHistoricDespisedUnprecedentedWhitenessEastern EuropeNew DealFosteringImmigrant Workers Author:David Roediger
“When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.” KidsWantedEurope Author:Valerie June
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.” PeopleKnowsKidsPainYoungViolenceColorEuropeBarriersChicagoTurmoilHaitiAtlanta Author:Common
“The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.” PeopleWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensWarWholeRunningKidsAmericaLeftWhitePoorClassIssuesFeetEconomicFirst TimeEuropeIndiaWestConservativeBritainRacistWorking ClassVirginiaConcentratingSexistPhonyWest VirginiaBare FeetDisenfranchisedEconomic Issues Author:Irvine Welsh
“So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.” WorldChildrenPersonsKidsAmericaLinesColorEuropeThirdsNarrativePotNew WorldStrokesAsiaIndigenousMeltingOld WorldMelting Pot Author:Tim Wise
“I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.” KidsEuropeThrillTracy Author:Robert Wagner
“In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents” KidsAmericaThreeParentResultsWifeEuropeCanadaJapanThree Times Author:Phil Collins