It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut,… — Kenna Copy Share Image
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Bedford definitely stands out as a community that's designed to appease to a broader range of budgets and lifestyles. The opportunity for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love on like the same day -… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
When I was younger - in elementary school - my parents are both teachers, so we moved around a lot. For the… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end… — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
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… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including… — Robinson Cano Copy Share Image