Upbringing Quotes

I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind the life that was in Chicago.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

That background helped me a lot, because it taught me to fend for myself from a very early age, and to be responsible. It was an upheaval of an upbringing, which seems to have worked, I guess.

My parents were very strict. They thought boarding school would do me good. So, when I was about seven, I was put in one in India for a while.

I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

I'm a reflection of the community.

Of course I'm going to say 'I'm a thug,' that's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here!

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel.

Everything depends on upbringing.