Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.
Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.
I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
I was born in California and moved around a lot. When I was 17, I moved to Boston because my mom got a job there. The moment I went to Boston, everything just felt right and fell into place on how I wanted it to be.
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
I was born in the U.S. This is my country.
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.
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