Quotes About Community

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him.