Quotes About Community

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

I come from a working-class family of seven children.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important.

What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.

During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.