A Quote by Rashid Johnson

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.

Rashid Johnson

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Rashid Johnson
American - Photographer
Born: 1977

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Annalee Newitz

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I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

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Ben Miller

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William Kamkwamba

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Amar Bose

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Terry Teachout

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Bernie Finkelstein

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Hilary Hahn

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