Quotes About Community

There are certain people who if they are absent life becomes hard to bear.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body.

I mean colored is red and green and yellow and blue. This skin here …" He held out a hand to demonstrate. "This skin is black! It ain't colored! It's black!

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.

Andy didn't know Blake before he heard the rumor about the gun. As the janitor's son, Andy has his own problems with nasty rumors

A world more in contact with each other than ever, and we chose to tell each other what we ordered for lunch.

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

Another funny thing about living in this city is how easy it can be to lose track of people. We're all so busy, always rushing around, so wrapped up in our own stuff. It stops occurring to us to check in with friends. I mean REALLY check in with them.

Everyone loves brunch. OBVIOUSLY, but you super-love brunch. You are so big into brunch that your middle name should be "Brunch"...

The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace.

Nothing creates a bond between people in Africa more quickly than shaed laughter".

I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also—I am so gratified to report—they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well.

Glitter family is my long-time favourite term for this: the people who those of us pushed to society's margins (and beyond) make our cohort. Glitter is known to be shiny and unruly, easy to get and hard to be rid of. I love the drag connotations and the femme visibility of it, as well as its unmistakably queer sensibility—look only as far as glitter-bombing for proof that nothing is as thoroughly and satisfyingly queer as glitter.

You do not see deviantly gendered people walking around with Nalgene bottles, getting our sixty-four recommended ounces as we go through our days. I am sure that somewhere there is an argument to be made that the trans community as a whole is a little cranky because we could all use a nice big glass of water.

I honed my argumentation skills early and often, growing up in a family and a community that held friendly, even warm conversations at a decibel level that in other cultural contexts means the will is being rewritten as soon as the doors have been slammed.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

The lack of effective and charismatic leaders always forced the Muslim youth to choose the wrong role models.

If you really aren't interested in serving others, you don't need to be in the restaurant business in the first place.

We love quotations; they strengthen us in our own belief; they show that some other spirit, perhaps a master-spirit, has gone thus far with us: to such we cling as the ivy to the oak.

All my life I have generally avoided my neighbors. If I happen to encounter one of them I immediately move somewhere else.