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“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.”

Sometimes Choices Grows Realizing Poverty Growing Up Educational Neighborhood Educational System

Author:Keke Palmer

“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.”

Feels Whole School Black White Middle Lucky High School Towns Neighborhood Black And White Hispanic So Lucky Denver

Author:Bill Frisell

“Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.”

Individual Poverty Environment Grew Grew Up Intention Neighborhood Wrong Things Detours

Author:Kevin Gates

“We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.”

“It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.”

School Behinds Doors Grew Horror Grew Up Neighborhood Closed Doors Affluent Behind Closed Doors Prestigious

Author:Kirby Wright

“There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.”

People Thinking Believe Sports Growing Up Growing Figures Neighborhood Idolized

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.”

Long Kids Grew Grew Up Picks Tough Decided Starting Neighborhood Take Me Pick Me

Author:Bo Jackson

“I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.”

Grew Grew Up South Neighborhood Pot Melting Integrated Descendants Bronx Melting Pot

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.”

Ifs Mean Found Literature Neighborhood

Author:Saul Williams

“I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to Los Angeles, stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.”

Humor Funny Stuff Saws Building Scared Hotel Neighborhood Los Angeles Cracks Abandoned Ghetto Abandoned Buildings

Author:Chris Rock

“I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.”

People Shows Humor Reality Would Be Funny Black White Four Neighborhood Hunts Reality Shows Crackers

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.”

Important Political Views Cutting Areas Faults Architecture Factors Neighborhood Neglect

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.”

Knows Trying Use Values Left Language Common Streets New York Fit Tough Curse Shock Neighborhood Hung Vulgar Shock Value

Author:George Carlin

“There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.”

Thinking Believe Running Three Lost Steps Champion Neighborhood Runners

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“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.”

School Fall Situation High School Deeper Coaching Neighborhood Homeless

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.”

Years Play Kids Used Mother Fun Stars Five Seven Neighborhood Cents Seven Years Garage

Author:Franny Armstrong

“Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.”

Writing Children Play Mother Three Imagination Support Four Fronts Husband Creating Saint Grandmother Neighborhood Armstrong

Author:Franny Armstrong

“People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.”

People Home Values Creating Neighborhood Improving Creating Value

Author:Mark Noble

“Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.”

Values Plans Land Taxes Property Rate Improvement Setting Settings Neighborhood Property Taxes

Author:Mark Noble

“I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.”

Believe Home I Believe Community Neighborhood Our Community

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.”

Today Jobs Cities Growing Up Growing Player Team Football Seasons Drinking Stores Holes Neighborhood Mechanic Furniture Football Player Baltimore Off Season Colts

Author:Barry Levinson

“What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.”

People Stories Community Goes On Neighborhood Baltimore Quirks Diners

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.”

Thinking World Kind I Can Home Asks Can Do Differences Too Much Making A Difference Neighborhood Los Angeles Back Home Canyons

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.”

People Play House Band Guitar Hip Hop Hips Hops Neighborhood House Music

Author:Jimmy Page

“You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.”

Long School Law Artist Sex Term Support Battle Worship Gender Long Term Neighborhood Inclusion Legislation Trans Initiate Places Of Worship Sex And Gender

Author:Kate Bornstein

“Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.”

“Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.”

People Should Persons Helping Fighting Walks Numbers Cold Exercise Shapes Seasons Average Ill Work Out Excuse Parks Neighborhood Gym Flu Refrain Average Person Jogging Walks In The Park

Author:Michael Flynn

“You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.”

Men Seems Jobs Choices Simple Chosen Neighborhood True Life

Author:Jessamyn West

“Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.”

Men Littles War Bigs Next Left Watches Worry Fire Wise Approach Smoke Decent Restaurants Neighborhood Horizon Warning

Book:Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

“My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.”

Want Made Humor Kids Funny House Woods Lifts Neighborhood Scare Yards

Author:Steven Wright

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

Men Reality Funny Literature Neighbor Every Man Neighborhood Spy Jane

Author:Jane Austen

“Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.”

Joy Creativity Neighborhood Love Life Eccentricity Joy Of Living Convergence Mardi Gras

Book:1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

“I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.”

People Two Ends States Four Blue Coffee Driving Block Shops Neighborhood Bubbles Nashville Coffee Shop

Author:Ben Folds

“I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.”

Humor Funny Gone Zone Neighborhood Tow

Author:Steven Wright

“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.”

Different Country Grows Cities Growing Up Groups Economic Grew Type Lucky Grew Up Neighborhood Diverse Ethnic Groups Different Types Of Music Economic Status

Author:Mike Posner

“One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.”

Knows Guy Walks Morning New York Coffee Great Things Dry Shops Neighborhood Cleaning Coffee Shop Dry Cleaning

Author:Piper Perabo

“In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.”

Ifs Hands Walks Keys Following Neighborhood Apartment Looking Back 80s

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.”

People Knows Want I Can Can Do Neighborhood Know Me Hood

Author:Danny Brown

“People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.”

People Thinking Reason Girl Parent Worry Walking Neighborhood Paranoid Classmates Walking Alone

Author:Daniel Handler

“I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.”

Ifs Waiting Neighborhood

Author:Paul van Dyk

“We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.”

Giving Community Plans Integrity Protect Neighborhood Our Community

Author:Alan Autry

“For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.”

Years Community Information Politician Ill Neighborhood Librarian Cliche Notorious Information Is Power

Book:High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian

Source: High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian

“The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.”

Universe Neighbor Neighborhood Indifferent Hostile Love Thy Neighbor

Author:Louise Lester

“I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.”

Smell Complaining Endless Smoke Budgets Neighborhood Warfare Supporter Deficit Headache Budget Deficit Arsonists

Author:Bob Herbert

“[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.”

People Way Want Needs Made Ideas Hate Growing Up Growing Special Mets I Hate Shoes Denial Restaurants Neighborhood Strict Allergic Allergies Special Needs Tailored Lotion

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.”

Men Wanted Black Streets Color Perspective Neighborhood Harassment Street Harassment

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.”

Kids Neighborhood Jail Cemetery

Author:Bo Jackson

“I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.”

“Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?”

Sides Walks Steps Block Right Thing Neighborhood Sneakers

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.”

Ifs Writing Half Advice Hot Drunk Tonight Neighborhood Chickens Other Half Writing Poetry Fried Chicken

Author:Charles Bukowski

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