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Growing Up

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Growing Up

"It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history."

Home Night Growing Up
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Adam Oates Hockey Player
Growing Up

"Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you."

Father Growing Up Soccer
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Carson Kressley Television Personality
Growing Up

"When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing."

Growing Up Gay Blessing
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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Growing Up

"I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7."

Kids Father Growing Up
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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Growing Up

"As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am."

People Growing Up Always Trying
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Growing Up

"... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen."

Real Growing Up Flames
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David Musician
Growing Up

"Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."

Growing Up Gratitude Rain
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David Simon Television Producer
Growing Up

"I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human."

Perfect Growing Up Challenges
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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Growing Up

"I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up."

Growing Up Comedian Nerd
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Dianne Reeves Jazz Singer
Growing Up

"The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I was growing up. My parents loved jazz music, so on Saturday [laughing] it would be the "Longine's Symphonettes," and on Sunday it was Mahalia Jackson."

Growing Up Doors Sunday
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Growing Up

"[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible."

Littles Growing Up Water
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Growing Up

"My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them."

Growing Up Pants Pairs
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Growing Up

"I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up."

Children Growing Up Magic
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Dree Hemingway Model, Actress
Growing Up

"My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door."

Thinking Growing Up Doors
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Donald Miller Author
Growing Up

"I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble."

Kids Growing Up Dad
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