T. D. Jakes Quotes

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

I feel like a Nice citizen: it's my hometown. I come back to the city to spend time there because it's in my DNA.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

I want to be a part of stories.

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

I really tell a lot of stories. I want people to know who I am.

I myself identify as British-Nigerian, and I'm also gay, and I'm also a young adult in London making music. All of things can co-exist as one.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

To love is to undress our names.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.