Quotes About Community

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it to college. All the negative things were all around me.

Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?

There were a lot of gangs in high school. Instead of being in a gang, I decided to dance.

I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.

There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.

You want to be leaders and you're black and I'm here to tell you how to do it. Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect from these celebrity athletes who don't really care nothing about you.

We need to keep the Garden a place that's comfortable and safe for everybody who goes there.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

I've been going around London obsessing about people's gardens; I take pictures on my BlackBerry.

I became personal friends with Erica Garner and with so many other families affected by police violence.

I ain't never detached myself from Gary.

There was a greengrocer on Rotherfield Street off Essex Road in Islington, north London. My brother Gary worked there for a couple of years and when he moved on I took over.