Quotes About Community

I am quite fluent in Odiya. I understand the people of Odisha, and they understand me.

I'm so Filipino. I'm fluent in Filipino.

'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.

Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.

When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

I love focusing on what we have to do right here in Lexington.

If you're only focusing on yourself, then you're not going to help the team.

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel and they will get closer to folk music.

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

I think most folks are good folks.

Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.

The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.

It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'