When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‚Bad Bunny.‘
Bad BunnyI still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.
Robert KiyosakiI absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
Dwayne JohnsonMy father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
Billy GrahamIt would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie RobinsonUntil I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
Dolly PartonMy mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I’ve always been a tennis fan.
Tom BradyI was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
J. ColeI know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
Matthew McConaugheyThe tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
Jane GoodallI always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.
RihannaWe do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. WashingtonI would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
Anthony HopkinsI haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.
Steven WrightMy 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.
Dolly PartonTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James BaldwinWhen I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Denzel WashingtonWhen I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood – and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.
Richard BransonI mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
Desmond TutuThere is no scriptural basis for segregation.
Billy GrahamI want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
EminemEven when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.
Conor McGregorI think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.
Dave GrohlSabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
Nelson MandelaThe first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
Ray Bradbury‚Border‘ was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.
Virat KohliI loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
Jackie ChanI remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.
Dolores HuertaWe’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.
Robert KiyosakiI look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.
Kevin GatesI grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.
Alice WalkerI do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson MandelaI was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
David BowieWhen I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
Clint EastwoodWhen I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
Steven WrightAs far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouHappy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles DickensYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussOn one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
Fidel CastroMy kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Erma BombeckWhen I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn MonroeIt’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Gordon RamsayDevon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.
Richard BransonIn my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.
Terry PratchettWhen I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.
Jane GoodallI’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel WashingtonI was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
Mr. TI used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.
BonoMy family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
Alice WalkerSince childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.
Bad BunnyAll my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.
Jimmy CarterIn so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya AngelouAs a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Neil ArmstrongI think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.
Angelina JolieI was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
Margaret AtwoodMost of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
Paulo CoelhoI remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Noam Chomsky