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I Grew Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
- I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone…
- I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
- That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
- I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and…
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was… — Margaret Atwood
- Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa. — Michele Bachmann
- I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one… — Amy Adams
- I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive. — Alan Ball
- You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family. — Alan Ball