Quotes About Community

I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.

The new national campfire - radio.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.

Raider Nation is everywhere, literally.

I love Raider Nation. There's nothing like it.

I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I've always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I've been a huge fan since the early '90s.

If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.

As a Raider fan, I'll say we never want the Raiders to ever leave Oakland.

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

I rode it a lot before I was governor. I rode the commuter rail for a lot of years, I rode the T for a lot of years, and I talk to people all the time who ride both.

We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can't rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty.

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

Liverpool was a special city that took to me; I will always remember how special that place was. I obviously don't miss the rain.

What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.

I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.