#i was born

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#because #black #born #come #even

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. ↗

— Ice T

#black #born #families #grew #house

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#born #detroit #father #i #i was born

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#brazil #grew #i #i was born #missionaries

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#actual #back #ball #born #changed

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#born #brought #clever #dad #driver

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#born #catholic #early #education #fitted

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. ↗

— Joan Jett

#advantage #believe #born #get #i

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#before #born #could #died #good