Maxine Waters Quotes

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

All the kids are freaking out about Snapchat, so I'm hoping to trick them into thinking I know how to use it, too.

So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube - that was a really simple, profound idea.

My oldest grew up on Disney, but my youngest is all about Snapchat and YouTube.

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

The millennial generation is very vocal.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

Styles move too fast to be partial to anything. If it's funk, that's enough for me. I don't care how fast or slow it is. I got my grandkids up front rapping and doing the new thing. They're teaching each other, bringing us up to date.

There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

Millennials can be very hardworking, but it's easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.

I use my interaction with both my kids to know how the youth today relates to technology, their expectations in terms of mobility and social solutions by customer services-oriented businesses like banking.

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.