Quotes About Community

Une maison n'est qu'une coquille vide ; ce sont ses habitants qui lui donnent une âme.

I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.

My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you're doing movies and stuff, you're a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, 'Sherri, you said what I feel.' That just means so much to me to know that I have that support.

My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

Tens of millions of Americans now live longer and healthier lives because activists all over our nation fought for our American values of fairness and economic justice.

nineteenth-century Populist Party leader Tom Watson as he spoke to his white and black followers: "The accident of color can make no difference in the interest of farmers, croppers, and laborers … You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings."3

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Some turn the soil and plant seedlings. We garden with words and nurture affinity.

His misfortune is that he was born fun-loving into a tribe that doesn't understand fun.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

this distinctive confusion: these days, whether you are online or not, it is easy for people to end up unsure if they are closer together or further apart.

is not a problem looking for a quick fix. Life is a conversation and you need places to have it. The virtual provides us with more spaces for these conversations and these are enriching. But what makes the physical so precious is that it supports continuity in a different way; it doesn't come and go, and it binds people to it. You can't just log off or drop out.

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.

My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude-the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude. To experience solitude you must be able to summon yourself by yourself; otherwise you will only know how to be lonely

We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Yet

Solitude reinforces a secure sense of self, and with that, the capacity for empathy. Then, conversation with others provides rich material for self-reflection. Just as alone we prepare to talk together, together we learn how to engage in a more productive solitude.

The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.