#bronx

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 you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#apart #back #been #bring #bronx

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#bronx #brought #easily #fed #fed up

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#always #bedrooms #being #being silly #bronx

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#any #before #being #bronx #buddies

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!' ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#bronx #grew #i #like #survive

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#bronx #citizen #ever #grew #i

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#attorney #bronx #communities #crimes #devastate

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#cats #found #grew #i #lot

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

— Al Pacino

#bronx #i #need #south #south bronx

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. ↗

— Howard Cosell

#burning #gentleman #ladies