Teenage Quotes

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.