Childhood
Born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba, he was raised on a remote farm before emigrating to New York with his family as a teenager.
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Famous quotes containing the word childhood:
“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our childrens, and of what our childrens future will hold.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“and I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me
because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and
theyll
probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
“Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, its teeming with energy and fraught with danger.”
—Mary Pipher (20th century)