Quotes About Community

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

The gay community has a strength and identity that has been lost by dispossessed, guilt-ridden, straight men.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.

I was really afraid to do one of those shows where like, gays go and make straight people's lives better and then they leave town.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

The marginalization of African-Americans within their own community based on sexuality is a construct that is more complex than the idea that 'blacks just hate gays.'

It's their choice, the choice of the people of Gaza, to create the real peace or at least to create conditions of coexistence.

Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your imagination, strong legs, and a couple of friends, and it's a game.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

I love working for a company full of geeks.

The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

I just think, you know what, some of the most astute fans I know are film geeks, film lovers, and watchers, and I am now proud to be one of them. So I am, hopefully, going to be accepted into the club of geek!

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.

I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

The black community is broken up in general.

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

To the general public, just remember the people around you. You might not know what they're thinking, so it's always nice to be checked in on and to check in on people.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.