Suge Knight Quotes

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

What I like to say is that we're trying to develop a new generation of technologies that are worthy of the next generation of kids.

It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.

I just think it's crazy that we don't think that the youth are valid. They're the ones who really know what's going on.

We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.

Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

I absolutely loathe and hate the work... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what an honour that is. Nowhere else could a fat 47-year-old speak to people as young as this. They'd think you were a paedophile.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.

The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.

I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? I'm up here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something, or I wouldn't have been nominated for Best New Artist. Sometimes it's like, "You're right. My mother wrote these songs."