#neighborhood

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy. ↗

— Frankie Valli

#neighborhood #out #take #you

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown. ↗

— JoJo

#brown #ella #ella fitzgerald #fitzgerald #girl

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#even #high #high school #i #just

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.' ↗

— Marco Rubio

#drive #hate #houses #i #live

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#african-american #anything #aspired #did #got

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. ↗

— Dan Savage

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised. ↗

— Junior Seau

#better #even #get #guaranteed #i

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#academies #anybody #baseball #bottom #bottom line

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#neighborhood #poodle #side #through #walk