I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.
I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
I would rather aim high and miss the mark than low and make it.
