Quotes About Community

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it's been products that don't put anything back into our community.

The more I got into my artistry, I got a bigger responsibility: the kids in Chicago, they look up to the rappers. We influence them.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

I listen to most South Florida rappers.

The fact is, I'm the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis.

It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.

When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the struggle. It's not necessarily what we're going through ourselves.

I love little theatres because it's very intimate, and you can have a very easy rapport with the audience. Everyone's in the same room.

I had grown up seeing people in school where I felt like I needed to keep them at arm's length, or on the picket line, where there was a tonne of hostility and no time to build rapport with people.

When I got on Twitter, that was the first time I was able to have lasting relationships with outsiders. And even though they were limited to those 140 characters, it was the duration of the friendships and the rapport we were able to develop.

Imgur offers a rare place for people to express themselves in a real way without the fear of social judgment. Everyone has an equal chance of sharing their story to millions of people because it's not about who you are but about the quality of your content.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare.

These fans are the reason why we're here. They're awesome and very crazy. They love Avenged Sevenfold, and we love them. Having that is rare.

It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.

Chris had the unique and rare opportunity to be shown during his lifetime how many friends he has and how much they care.

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.