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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community  (Inner Kid Quotes) I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I’d never been around poor whites before  (Inner Kid Quotes) I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that’s my issue  (Inner Kid Quotes) When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I’m not saying it was natural, but I really enjoyed it, and I think I was tapping into my childhood, growing up with ‘Star Wars.’ And I grew up with G.I. Joe as well. Same as ‘Thundercats’ and ‘Transformers’ and ‘He-Man.’ And so I think it was the inner kid in me just came out  (Inner Kid Quotes) Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don’t relate to.  (Inner Kid Quotes) When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.  (Inner Kid Quotes) Hip-hop - it’s the safari: it allows people who aren’t under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It’s something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious.  (Inner Kid Quotes) I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.  (Inner Kid Quotes) Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do  (Inner Kid Quotes)