Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up. ”

I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen. ”

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there. ”

My dad took me to loads of concerts when I was growing up. ”

It was awesome growing up listening to Oasis and Paolo Nutini, but I also loved growing up listening to Ray Charles and Muddy Waters. ”

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely. ”

Trump is not a conservative and has no conservative agenda. If elected president, he would not govern as the second coming of Ronald Reagan. ”

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders. ”

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it. ”

The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations. ”