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I grew up in Brooklyn.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.