Quotes About Community

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

No better way to bond than food.

I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.

In country radio, everybody has such a connection and a bond. So you've got to meet them.

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and bond. It's the same for black women in the salon. Going there is my favourite thing to do in the week. You catch up with people, someone comes around with food, someone else is selling something.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Once you eat, talk, share, sleep, wake-up with the same people, you tend to form bonds.

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.

They would not boo me in Culiacan.

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

When the fans and players are united, the team is always much stronger so, when the fans really get behind us, it gives us a huge boost - and that's what we want.

Basketball Without Borders is very important.

One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership not to think that the countries belong to them... We didn't create the borders to start with.

Basketball Without Borders gave me an edge.

Home is not land and borders. It's about people you love.

I think Basketball Without Borders is huge just because of the platform that basketball is.

When I was growing up in my area, the worst problem for us was we never had a purpose, I'd just be looking for stuff to do, I would be bored, that's how we would get into trouble.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.