Quotes About Community

You hear about players like Jamal Crawford who's constantly giving back. Isaiah Thomas, even though he's from Tacoma, he went to U-Dub, and he's constantly giving back to the community.

Thomas J. Huddleston never cast a ballot in his lifetime but he found a way to lift Black Mississippians up. And that is a legacy I will carry with me always.

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

Playing in England was a fantastic experience. In Liverpool, I felt at home and really, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built for fairness in all communities.

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

Though I read and speak Malayalam, Malayalis won't accept outsiders speaking their language.

Even though Puerto Rico will always be my hometown, I feel Miami is my second home.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

Everything I've ever thought about doing has been, in some sense, about helping people.