#hood

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

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Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

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They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories. ↗

— Thomas Keller

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It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

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I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend. ↗

— Alicia Keys

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