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“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.”

Children Kids Faces Poor Lows Income Neighborhood Elsewhere Odds Baltimore Low Income Poor Children

Author:Gwen Ifill

“Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.”

Years Kids Lasts Three Pieces Billions Neighborhood Executives Last Year Halloween Candy Imaginative Goldman Sachs

Author:Jay Leno

“When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.”

Firsts Littles Kids Pet Neighborhood Little Kid Alligators

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.”

Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

“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.”

Wells Said Kids School Mother Courses High School Okay Dollars Teenager Neighborhood

Author:Trina Robbins

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

Writing Kind Made Ends Play Kids Wanted Three Term Interest Creativity Rocks Band Decided Singers Neighborhood Rock Bands

Author:Dennis Cooper

“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.”

Littles Home Kids Wanted School Comedy Drama Directors Summer High School Spending California Neighborhood Twelve Fifteen Cousin Sixteen

Author:Steven Spielberg

“When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.”

“I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.”

Real Kids Streets Grew Grew Up Rings Kicks Neighborhood Stoops Slums Tenements

Author:Bonnie Bedelia

“Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Neighborhood Riding Dirt Bike Skateboarding Bike Riding Dirt Bikes

Author:Daniella Monet

“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”