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Coretta Scott King Civil Rights Activist
Growing Up

"As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child."

Children Growing Up White
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Paul Walker Actor
Growing Up

"I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away."

Christian Growing Up Atheist
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Growing Up

"Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."

Thinking Growing Up Get Well
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Businesswoman, Entrepreneur
Growing Up

"As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success."

Years Successful Growing Up
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Growing Up

"I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people's world, that's criminal...Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment."

Thinking Growing Up Ghetto
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Meek Mill Rapper
Growing Up

"When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy."

Song Growing Up Track
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Dylan Moran Comedian
Growing Up

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

Funny Growing Up Humor
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DJ Khaled Music Producer
Growing Up

"I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era."

Boys Growing Up Roots
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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
Growing Up

"You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period."

Growing Up Community Loyalty
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Cam Newton Football Player
Growing Up

"Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me."

Fashion Growing Up Atlanta
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Growing Up

"There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland."

Growing Up Hero Mcdonalds
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