Lena Waithe Quotes

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Wisdom begins at the end.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.