Patrisse Khan-Cullors: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Patrisse Khan-Cullors

American artist and activist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 March 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

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Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Boarding school. It was horrible.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

Greg James British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗

Bill Bryson American-British author

Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗

Ronald Harwood South African playwright and novelist

The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗