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I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Day
Every Day
Wake Up
Girl
Single
Every
Bronx
Single Day
Wake
Up
Rican
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Every Single Day
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
Al Pacino
Bronx
South
South Bronx
Bodyguards
Need
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell
Army
School
College
Out
Bronx
Born
Stuck
Got
South
South Bronx
Just
Public
Then
Public School
Raised
Harlem
Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.
Hill Harper
Me
Together
Matter
King
Sister
Young
Side
Destiny
Says
Bronx
Brother
Mutual
Angeles
Well
Tied
Said
How
Doing
Los
Los Angeles
South
Chicago
South Bronx
Very
South Side
Louisiana
May
Which
Central
Hollywood
Then
Garment
Dr
Dr. King
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
Jay-Z
Music
Time
You
Together
Generation
People
Listening
Club
This Generation
Worldwide
Everywhere
Out
Bronx
See
Having
Having Fun
Partying
Hip-Hop
Least
Go
Same
Any
Done
Hanging
Just
Anymore
Fun
Why
Ever
Enjoying
I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Robert Klein
Avenue
Bronx
Brought
Up
North
Cemetery
Next
Right
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
Sonia Sotomayor
Princeton
Action
Baby
Those
Colleagues
Bronx
Able
Born
Perfect
Institutions
Yale
Am
Test
Test Scores
Were
South
Off
Scores
South Bronx
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Rican
Succeed
Far
Product
Comparable
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Raised
Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Me
To Be Honest
Other
All My Friends
Bronx
Stayed
Never
Town
Like
Because
Territory
Always
Real
Up
Friends
Any
Just
Places
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Honest
Hip-hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I'm down the block from where hip-hop was born and raised, so I'm glad I am here and I'm able to represent New York the way I am.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Down
Everything
Way
Bronx
Able
Born
Glad
New
Am
Hip-Hop
Block
York
Represent
New York
Where
Means
Originated
Specifically
Here
Raised
People's hustle in the Bronx is real.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
People
Bronx
Hustle
Real
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
Ace Frehley
Kid
Bronx
Got
Just
Who
Lucky
My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.
Adam Silvera
Life
Book
First
Single
Before
Side
Characters
Bronx
Something
Week
Main
Come
Like
Households
South
South Bronx
Being
Realized
Lived
Published
I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Own
Bronx
Born
Buildings
Were
South
South Bronx
Committing
Burning
While
Landlords
Who
Dad
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Somewhere
Think
Run
Bronx
Rather
Invest
Than
We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.
Alice Waters
Buy
Day
Every Day
People
Some People
Shoes
Pay
Every
Extra
Other
Nike
Bronx
Eat
Some
About
Make
Going
Want
Decisions
Little
Themselves
Grapes
Nourish
Pairs
Two
The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.
Amy Heckerling
Me
Bronx
Dreary
Seemed
Always
Very
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
Art Donovan
People
Way
Bronx
Must
Boy
Proud
Baltimore
Up
Very
Heaven
Lady
Who
Her
Treated
I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.
Big Bank Hank
Looking
Before
Live
Bronx
Performing
House
Looking Forward
Am
Forward
Keep
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
Cara Buono
Teacher
Best
Character
Sky
Bronx
One-Woman
Could
Reach
Accent
Up
Yoga
Want
Show
Raise
I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.
Cardi B
Three
Live
Kids
Bronx
Small
Share
Got
Want
Apartment
Room
I wrote three books about growing up in the Bronx.
Carl Reiner
Three
Books
Bronx
About
Wrote
Up
Growing
Growing Up
I grew up in the Bronx.
Chris Hayes
Bronx
Up
Grew
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
Dan Rosensweig
Day
Freedom
Me
Every Day
World
Money
Made
Country
Every
Immigrant
Bronx
Brooklyn
Religious
Religious Freedom
Never
Had
Greatest
Greatest Country
Came
America
Any
Loved
Grandparents
Who
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.
Dascha Polanco
Time
Job
Drop
Nursing
Bronx
Hospital
Student
Had
Instrument
Due
Which
While
Room
Acting
Actually
In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax
Business
Training
Money
School
Space
College
Clown
Ran
Out
Bronx
Charging
He
Soon
Opened
Courses
Waiter
Same
Now
Milton
I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
Ed Koch
Simple
Bronx
Boy
Just
Jewish
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