Wesley Morris Quotes

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate parks, like, every day and do motor cross, like, every weekend, and I was kind of one of those girls.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

I still wear Vans.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.'

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

I actually don't mind viral trends. I think most of them are inexplicably really funny.

I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.

I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.

I actually started my YouTube channel by accident! I was growing a fan base without even knowing it, and it's all in my book 'Is You Okay?'

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care about a certain thing.

As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

I'd always loved what went on in skateboarding. I'd never skated myself, but I loved the graphics - I really liked the rebelliousness of it.

I was a huge 'Blind Date' fan, though, when I was younger; that was on when I was in high school.

I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school.

But yeah, YouTube started for me straight out of high school, so 2009, because everyone was going to college except me.

The Jake Paulers are the strongest army out there. Dab.

I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it's very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things.