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“Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.”

Thinking Has Beens Home Kids Causes Streets Youth Circumstances Homeless Homelessness

Author:Jewel

“Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS”

Kids Risk Streets Youth Higher Abuse Including Illness Aids Shelter Homeless Assault Hiv Sexual Assault Hiv Aids

Author:Jewel

“What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.”

Knows Issues Streets Youth Essentials Homeless Homelessness Outreach

Author:Jewel

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.”

“The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.”

“Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.”

Firsts Hands Political Passion Hours Talking Streets Youth Walking Eating Drinking Incredibles Spending Paris

Author:Kate Hudson

“Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.”

Knows Streets Youth Wall Trump Hero Capitalism Hip Hop Hips Hops Rebellion Taking Pictures

Author:Saul Williams

“Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.”

Stories Black White Race Streets Media Youth Involved Racism Hatred Police Stranger Chiefs Target Gang Mayors Tiptoes Black Youth

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.”

Stories Lying Artist Four Player Groups Streets Style Youth Band Members Musician Standing Performances Clean Guitar Decades Bars Parks Guitar Player Hardcore Aces Homegrown Those Who Lie

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented when it comes to street crime, and 60 percent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 23 has been arrested at least once.”

Has Beens Age Fighting Streets Crime Youth Percent Syria Arrested Dutch

Author:Geert Wilders

“I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.”

Giving Important Helping Simple Streets Youth Giving Up Christmas Seats Bus Toys Pregnant Turkeys Giving Back Old Lady

Author:Queen Latifah

“I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naïve hope.”

Moving Desire Streets Youth Wall Caring Sincerity Naive Involvement Occupy Wall Street

Author:Elayne Boosler

“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.”

Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher

“Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.”