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Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.
I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do.
