Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
Gauguin is creepy - let's just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he's looking at these young girls, and the colonial gaze: It's just really problematic.
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
I got in the limelight at a young age. At age 19, people were already comparing me to Anderson Silva.
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.