Michael Che Quotes

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

I'm the youngest of seven kids.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

I'm the oldest out of five.

I am the oldest of 4 kids.

I grew up as one of six kids.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

I'm the third of five children.

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

I've got 11 brothers and sisters.

I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.