Being Quote by Leonard Susskind

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

— Abel Ferrara

I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal…

— Dave Barry

I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

— Jonathan Kozol

The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty.

— Ritchie Torres

I feel like if I'm going to be a congressman who represents the South Bronx, I have to be the most visible and vocal…

— Ritchie Torres

Most of the people in the South Bronx are practical rather than ideological. Their concerns are bread and butter, health and housing, schools and…

— Ritchie Torres

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of…

— Majora Carter

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

— Al Pacino

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that…

— Jonathan Kozol