Quotes About Youth

I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed because I was such a big fan of '007.' But I was young, and I didn't have a perception of what celebrity was or who my grandfather was... I still don't, really.

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.

I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

Mrs Wheeler at Dudley Middle School, where I went from 10 to 13, also saw I had the ability to perform and entertain people.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.