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I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.