“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".” KnowsTryingVoiceStruggleClearPositionGrewNeededGrew UpPoliceNeighborhoodHelpfulRoughPolice BrutalityBrutalityPhiladelphia Author:Will Smith
“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.” WantKidsNightSidesGrowing UpGrowingGrewProjectsGrew UpLonelyPoliceScaredEvery NightSirensLonely Nights Author:LeBron James
“I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.” SometimesPlayDreamTogetherSongAnswersInterestingRocksListeningGrewConversationLateGrew UpPoliceStartingListsSurrenderTricksIntenseStayingHanging OutPunkGuitaristPunk RockDichotomyUkuleleRamonesDissectingTutorial Author:Eddie Vedder
“A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.” PeopleKnowsMayHas BeensTwoUsedNextBlackKnownDoorsSpecialGrewGrew UpPaidPolicePrivilegeBlack PeopleInformingInformantsSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.” DifferentFunMemoriesSeeingSonGrewGrew UpPoliceMy Son Author:Ice Cube
“I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.” KindCountrySongGrewDadGrew UpArmyPoliceMy DadOur CountryBelongingIronicEstablishmentUpbringingLoving YouCounterculture Author:Mike Dirnt
“I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!” PeopleWayStillsBookHateFunAnswersClassGrewGrew UpMassI HatePoliceDietsApologizingRipRoaring Book:The Tea Rose: A Novel Source: The Tea Rose: A Novel
“Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.” WellsGrewGrew UpEnglandPoliceLondon Author:Tony Greig
“We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.” SpiritualPartyStruggleStreetsDyingGrewSceneGrew UpPoliceSouthEverydayAtmosphereWho We AreEveryday LifeRumorHarlemSirensLandlordWailing Author:Ruby Dee