There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land… — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly,… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children?… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to… — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys… — Sxip Shirey Copy Share Image
Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue… Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
As of late, 'Boyz n the Hood' really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first… — Wendy Raquel Robinson Copy Share Image
I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries -… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright,… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active. — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you… — Piper Perabo Copy Share Image
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is… — Shintaro Ishihara Copy Share Image
![“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.” quote by Patricia Hill Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d81/patricia-hill-collins-25323_care_a-white-college-student-from-a-private-c_2979032.jpg)
