“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.” WellsSaidKidsSchoolMotherCoursesHigh SchoolOkayDollarsTeenagerNeighborhood Author:Trina Robbins
“I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.” LittlesHomeKidsWantedSchoolComedyDramaDirectorsSummerHigh SchoolSpendingCaliforniaNeighborhoodTwelveFifteenCousinSixteen Author:Steven Spielberg
“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.” FeelsWholeSchoolBlackWhiteMiddleLuckyHigh SchoolTownsNeighborhoodBlack And WhiteHispanicSo LuckyDenver Author:Bill Frisell
“Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.” SchoolFallSituationHigh SchoolDeeperCoachingNeighborhoodHomeless Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.” LittlesWarEndsSchoolTogetherBlackChurchPoorClassFourHigh SchoolEuropeTownsSouthEastNeighborhoodImmigrantsMexicoWorking ClassElementary School Author:Toni Morrison
“But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school - that is what allowed me to be exposed to so many different types of people. I went to a high school that was by the beach. I elected to do bussing my junior high school years. And my first year of high school, I would take the bus from my neighborhood to the beach schools. And at those schools, you had such a mix of so many types of kids.” PeopleYearsFirstsSaidDifferentKidsSchoolMomTypeHigh SchoolGratefulMy MomBeachStayingNeighborhoodBusExposedJust BeingPublic SchoolJuniorsJunior HighSo GratefulAdamantSchool YearsHigh School Junior Author:Regina King
“I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.” ChildrenImportantKidsSchoolParentPartyWorryHigh SchoolAlcoholNeighborhoodBeing A ParentGood Neighbor Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.” KidsSchoolWhiteYouthRacismHigh SchoolNeighborhoodRacistReverse Author:Shia LaBeouf
“When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.” PeopleDifferentProblemKidsSchoolAsksWaitingCollegeHigh SchoolNeighborhoodBeing DifferentAmbassadorsDealing With Problems Author:Andrew Young