Quotes About Community

Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.

I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.

Late-night cafés stand alone, like campfires holding out against the fall of night. Offering solace to their customers, from endless empty evenings and mean rooms no one ever visits.

Blaiston Street is the kind of area where no-one has ever paid any rent, where even the little comforts of life go only to the strongest, and plague rats go around in pairs because they're frightened.

Despite the willingness of people in Nagorno-Karabkh to wander through minefields, they seemed to be a surprisingly long-lived people.

We are often sold a vision of the world as a dangerous and frightening place. In reality the world is friendly and astonishingly hospitable.

A shared seat, shared music; and then the chap next to him nodding his head to Bruce Springsteen. Michael never let anyone's situation define them. He started to break down barriers and helped a generation of viewers dismiss the stereotypes that had plagued our view of other cultures.

Redeeming social value, indeed.

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

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Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After . (Harper Perennial; Original edition July 5, 2011)

it's hard to be gay in a small place like Morano, even though it's beautiful and the streets smell of wood smoke, and you can go anywhere at anytime and you'll never be turned away by anyone. You must understand, it's a question of practicality, not a question of acceptance. Times have changed. In Morano, if you're loved, everything else falls away.

I loved the sound of the word 'we'. Disaster got averted and tyrants got defeated with the word 'we'.

The city is the teacher of the man.

Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud.

If you can't share with your friends, who can you share with?

I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.

Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.

Ser judía es más algo de tu corazón que de tu mente. Para algunos, ser judío es seguir estrictamente las leyes y las costumbres de nuestros antepasados. Para otros, es ser parte de una comunidad. La religión es muy personal. Siempre estaré allí para ti si quieres o lo necesitas. Puedes elegir adoptar el judaísmo o decidir que tu vida no lo necesita. Nadie puede imponer la religión en ti o ésta no será real.

It's like a fuckin' parade of white folks, one whiter than the next.