#teenager

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #african american #american #behavior #behavioral

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. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#be happy #happy #hear #last #life

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ↗

— Doug Larson

#children #few #few things #more #own

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#focus #get #older #only #other

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#angst #full #i #introverted #quiet

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#black #conscious #culture #especially #grew

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. ↗

— Donal Logue

#booze #car #could #former #friends

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager. ↗

— Donal Logue

#been #bill #came #creators #everybody

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer. ↗

— Julie London

#actress #back #came #first #i

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#back #being #being a teenager #china #go