#Youth

"Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at."

"I’m 33, and an 18-year-old girl called me old. I said, “You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"The trick to looking ageless is drinking 55 gallons of #FlashBangWowFuzz every 4-6 hours. 24-hour discounts available."

"Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope."

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

"what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it."

"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."

"She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy."

"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."

"To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it."

"Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait."

"Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah"

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"

"WisdomWhen I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth."

"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."