Quotes About Community

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.

Growing up in Carol City, it was always a creative place for me to be because it was mad influential, especially going to Carol City High.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.

As a former school teacher, I know the importance of keeping everyone informed of what is going on in our schools.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

Kerala's inalienable strength is our excellent social infrastructure, built over a period of time.

From the water we drink to the roads and bridges we travel each morning and evening, infrastructure touches every Kentuckian, every day.

My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of infrastructure.

We must center restaurants, bodegas, and other food businesses as critical food infrastructure for racial and economic justice.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and - as is true of some other English cities - more than half of London's inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don't get a lot respect in my life.

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

I've decided with the full agreement of my wife Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and my children that my share of the inheritance will be shared with all Gabonese youth because in my eyes, we are all heirs of Omar Bongo Ondimba.

The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.

I was 11 years old when I was initially brutalized by the police, just for horse-playing with my friends and not responding to the police in the way they wanted me to.