Quotes About Community

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Bigger dreams of some black man who will weld all blacks together into a mighty fist.

A community founded upon argument would soon be a community no longer. It would dissolve into its constituent elements.

Persecution is only an attempt to do that overtly and with violence, which the community is, in self-defense, perpetually doing unconsciously and in silence. In many societies variation of belief is practically impossible. In other societies it is permitted only along certain definite lines. In no society that has ever existed, or could be conceived as existing, are opinions equally free (in the scientific sense of the term, not the legal) to develop themselves indifferently in all directions.

Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.

Parking was well on the way to becoming the British population's greatest spiritual need.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

In the provinces there is always a valve or a faucet through which gossip leaks from one social set to another.

Each household gathered in its chimney-corner, in houses carefully closed from the outer air, and well supplied with biscuit, melted butter, dried fish, and other provisions laid in for the seven-months winter. The very smoke of these dwellings was hardly seen, half-hidden as they were beneath the snow, against the weight of which they were protected by long planks reaching from the roof and fastened at some distance to solid blocks on the ground, forming a covered way around each building.

The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

There are no rules here, except that you have to sit properly at the bar when you drink. People can tell me anything they want. Things they wouldn't usually say, things that wouldn't be acceptable at work—it doesn't matter. That's what this place is for, after all: they come and pay money to buy themselves, their innermost hearts, a bit of freedom." She

Anche in mezzo a una folla, gli spiriti affini riescono a comunicare.

We're all brothers and sisters when we're in trouble, aren't we?

This town breathes in all the universes that people in this city have in their heads

Principalmente non si mangia mai da soli. Il cibo è determinante alla comunicazione tra le persone. Il cibo e la famiglia, per questo ne ho fatto un simbolo.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

We dont need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

On the opposite side of the street, children gather around a blind man who sells colourful balloons.