“Thanks to my mother, I graduated. But then we lost everything, we were...” — Shannon Briggs Quote

“Thanks to my mother, I graduated. But then we lost everything, we were homeless.”

“I was able to battle back through depression.”

“It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it's what made Shannon Briggs, it's who I am.”

“I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.”

“In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn't go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, 'Law firms won't hire you.'”

“I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I knew I wanted to go to college because nobody in my family had. So I was like, 'I'll go and be a theater major.'”