Black people Quote by Lena Waithe

This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only…

— John Hodgman

One thing that people outside Chicago need to understand is that the city is not just one thing. It is one city, but it…

— W. Kamau Bell

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

— James Iha

I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have.…

— Lena Waithe

I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two…

— Chance the Rapper

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia,…

— Tony Kushner

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is…

— Ana Castillo

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards,…

— Bill Kurtis

Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a…

— Irvine Welsh

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister…

— Douglas Wood

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

— Keri Hilson