"Youths are passed through schools that donâ€™t teach, then forced to search for jobs that donâ€™t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them."

-- Huey Newton

#Jobs Quotes #School Quotes #Youth Quotes

“There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.”

Source : Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.103, Penguin
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

Source : Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage
“I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.”
“To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.”
“The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.”
“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”
“Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.”
“Remember why you are here and why you are alive. Have faith in your dreams no matter how far they might seem.”

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