"I was this murky, fringe kid. I wasn't black, I wasn't white, and I'm way far from being Japanese…So I'm always on the edges, watching, listening, but not really in the mix."
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On his upbringing in South Los Angeles in “Joe Ide: Creating A Complicated Hero From the Hood” in NPR (2017 Nov 10)
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