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No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow_x000D__x000D_Then learn to survive until they gain control_x000D__x000D_Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes_x000D__x000D_Read more learn more, change the globe

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof,_x000D__x000D_To kick the truth to the young black youth.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,_x000D__x000D_Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty._x000D__x000D_We try to cry, but still they all die,_x000D__x000D_I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

Hold fast to life and youth.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Wheatgrass juice is the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth, the blood of all life. The elements that are missing in your body's cells-especially enzymes, vitamins, hormones, and nucleic acids can be obtained through this daily green sunlight transfusion.

Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop of ice cream can be a Proustian draft of youth's innocence and energy and possibility, while a morsel of fine cheese is a rich meditation on maturity, the fulfillment of possibility, the way of all flesh.

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age of 18 or 21, yet, 'minors' are one of the most oppressed groups of people in the world, and certainly the most discriminated against legally.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.