Grew Quotes

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I’d say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

I grew up with artists.

How I grew up, everybody was telling me, “You can’t do this, you can’t get tattoos, you’ve got to look a certain way.” Now, I’m like, “Why?”

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don’t want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.