- Describing Identity
- Race, ethnicity, gender, culture
“All right, a male, Black, spiritual, and another part of my background is that I barely made it.”
Participant:
- New York, NY
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
Youth Quote Search
Welcome to the Striving to Thriving Youth Quote Library. Here you’ll find a curated collection of more than 5,700 quotes from young people ages 15-22 living in communities across the United States. In the library you can see how young people describe their multifaceted identities, how they understand and apply meaning to language around job, work and career, how they think about and assign value to relationships, networking and connections, and their future goals and the education and career choices they believe will lead them there. You can also view additional notes on curation, categories and filters.
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“This is my second one. So I will be married. When I come home, everybody going to run to me. Please clean up. I’m cooking dinner. Yeah, I’m going to say y’all get over there and clean up. It’s time to get the homework out and all that. My husband going to come home from work. He going to greet me, yeah.”
Participant:
- Greenville, MS
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Describing Identity
- Race, ethnicity, gender, culture
“My gender is male. My race is white. My religion is Catholic.”
Participant:
- New Orleans, LA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Positives about job: money, time well spent. Positives about work: the ability to get things done.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Money.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Impact of family
- Pathways
“I put family, friends, just like having a very solid support system because everything, I’m sure, is going to get very messy. And, yeah, just having like kind of a safe place, like just something I can go to, to be able to relax and distract myself. School is hard. Work is hard. So I think just like worrying about like managing everything and going through like periods where I feel like I can’t manage it and need to have like breaks then. That’s where like the support system will kind of come in to really like help with the motivation issues and help with like keeping me back on track, like really grounding me.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Time.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“Be a sheriff. To me that is like I look at a career and I do want to do that, but I don’t want to miss these years [with my son].”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Back in business.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“My biggest challenge will be raising capital (money). I will have to be diligent about saving money and maintaining good credit.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income