We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Although I was born in New York, I moved to Baltimore when I was young. And I like to say New York birthed me, but Baltimore raised me. A big part of my heart was always in Baltimore.
I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.
I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.
I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.
I grew up in New York.
I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.