When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.
A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.
And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?
Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
I'm not running around looking for love and validation.
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Gangs are formed by kids who want love.
I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'
The main criticism people have of me is, 'Why are you trying so hard? This guy's exhausting.' Yeah, I am! That's my way of trying to get love.
I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.
Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.
I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.
I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.
If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
