Geographical Disparity Quotes

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in New York? It's crazy.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.

Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

Me and both my brothers got permits to attend Beverly because two of my uncles and my uncle's wife all taught and coached at Beverly Hills High. But I grew up in South Central.

When you grow up in a place like where we were, no matter how talented you are, if you don't even know that other things exist, there's no way for you to ever feel empowered because you're like, I'm confined to this small world.

It is inconceivable to me that we pay so little attention to what happens in the southern hemisphere..

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

Sebadoh were always kind of the un-band. We never really lived in the same town.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

Sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the Eastern seaboard and let it float out to sea.