Community Background Quotes

I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.

My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

At Harvard, I grew up a lot in terms of being able to deal with different types of people because where I grew up in Arizona, it's predominately white and predominantly Mormon families, so there's not a whole lot of diversity.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

I grew up in an all-white community.

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Growing up where I grew up in Queens, you have the United Nations all around you.

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

Me and both my brothers got permits to attend Beverly because two of my uncles and my uncle's wife all taught and coached at Beverly Hills High. But I grew up in South Central.

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.