It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.
'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.
I'm a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist's Association, and I'm actually a National Young Women's representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism.
Komarovski: [speaking to Lara of Pasha] He's a very fine young man. That's obvious.
Veta Louise Simmons: Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it.
Book Lady: Okay, young man. That'll be twenty five cents. Lesra: 25 cent? Must not be much of a book.
Young Eisenheim: [When showing Young Sophie the locket he made for her] There's a secret way to open it.
[first title card] Title card: "Rejoice O young man in thy youth..." - Ecclesiastes
Officer Slater: McLovin? Were you violating that young girl? Were you violating her with your penis?
[Magneto shoots Rogue with a tranquilizer dart while she runs away] Magneto: Young people.
It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.
My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.
Richard Vernon: Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
