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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

The best decision I ever made was to drop out of school.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.