Quotes About Community

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.

I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

Hip-hop music was our life.

New York hip-hop inspired me a lot.

I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment.

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

My family were pretty big hippies.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

My parents were hippies.

I didn't fit in on any level when I moved from Brooklyn to Burbank - on any level. And then I met a bunch of hippies, and I became a little hippie myself. A Brooklyn hippie.

In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.

Women have to write for each other; we have to hire each other.

Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

I would like to help out in financial literacy for the Hispanic community and the athletic community.

Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.

Having someone from Washington, California, or Chicago come in as a verifier, it shows the Hispanic community that Hispanic leaders support me.