Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

Natasha Trethewey
- Up
- War
- Parents
Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- Up
- Growing
- Cool
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

Magnus Magnusson
- Up
- Growing
- Best
When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

Dan Harmon
- Up
- Family
- Business
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

E. L. Konigsburg
- Up
- Feeling
- Small
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

Jackson Browne
- People
- Up
- Time