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Growing Up Quotes
Childhood memories, changed towns, and questions of identity.
These quotes span the specific texture of growing up - undecided ambitions, hometowns that later feel transformed, and early sporting or family memories that stick for life. Related reflections continue in Experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am I German enough?' Why are we measuring blackness?
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and Mustard the same age, and when we was growing up, he was DJing all the parties, and I was at all the parties.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.
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Growing up was very difficult.
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Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020