Grew Quote by Junot Diaz

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My rebelliousness in Sierra Leone helped me survive there, and it stayed with me until I moved to the States and realized I was…

— Michaela DePrince

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

My parents grew up in Haiti, and unfortunately they watched the country they loved slide into dictatorship.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people.

— Liu Cixin

My family fled socialist regimes not once but twice.

— George Santos

When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.

— Maika Monroe

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's…

— Boots Riley

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

— Florence Henderson

Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds…

— Eden Sher

Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in…

— Tamlyn Tomita

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

— Jalal Talabani