Award Quote by Yolanda King

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was…

— Alice Smith

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not…

— Liv Tyler

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

— Jerry Spinelli

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta…

— Devon Werkheiser

My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after…

— Deontay Wilder

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a…

— Wood Harris

I had a very normal, small town upbringing.

— Ava Michelle

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

— Ayanna Pressley

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

— Michael Eric Dyson

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

— Billy Bragg

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

— Chely Wright

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the…

— Lynda Barry