Appreciate Quote by E.J. Bonilla

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

— Lily King

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't…

— Elif Safak

Growing up, I didn't relate so much to the Greek side of my family. I love them, but I definitely felt different. I mean,…

— Jamie Demetriou

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

— Amber Tamblyn

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their…

— Natalie Kusz

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an…

— Tony Hale

Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community. I'd had…

— Kambri Crews

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being…

— Mylene Dinh-Robic

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

— Demetri Martin

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like.…

— Juliette Binoche

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and…

— Kehinde Wiley