Blacks Quote by Scott Turow

When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but…

— Noam Chomsky

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

— Jill Stein

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one…

— Grace Paley

I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

— Jami Attenberg

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

— Kyle Richards

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and living in New York, it didn't even strike me as a possibility that a place could…

— Molly Yeh

I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world…

— Barry Sanders

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else…

— Natalie Portman

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

— Rachel Brosnahan

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and…

— Vanessa Bayer

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me…

— Wesley Clark