Brooklyn Quote by Karan Mahajan

I grew up in Oakland and for a long time I was the only white kid in school. Then I moved to the suburbs…

— Ryan Fleck

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

— Condoleezza Rice

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

— Riley Stearns

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

— Kym Whitley

Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right?…

— Courtney A. Kemp

White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but to hear…

— Big Daddy Kane

I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah.…

— Richard Benjamin

I grew up in Vancouver which is beautiful but very Caucasian. When I moved to Toronto there were a lot more Black and mixed…

— Taylor Russell

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family…

— Richard Rodriguez

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

— Paul Dano