Quotes About Community

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

I like to travel, but honestly I really like to just be at home in London and spend time with my friends.

We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good... or at least put-out.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

This is a time to unify, this is a time to heal.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.

There's going to be a time when MS-13 fires an RPG into an Alexandria [Va.] police car, and [Americans] are going to say, 'What the hell happened?'

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.