“I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to ...” — Ayo Edebiri Quote

“I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a few of those were predominantly white institutions.”

“I know there are people who exist who don't like Oprah, but I have no interest in them.”

“I've always loved theatre. I still do. When I'm sad and I want to cry, I'll start looking at videos of Michael Jeter accepting a Tony.”

“I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.”

“When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.”

“I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.”