Quotes About Community

A library is more precious than a bank.

People who fit don't seek. The seekers are those that don't fit.

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

With people, so with trees With people, so with trees: where there are groups Of either, men or trees, some will remain Aloof while others cluster where one stoops To breathe some dusky secret. Some complain And some gesticulate and some are blind; Some toss their heads above green towns; some freeze For lack of love in copses of mankind; Some laugh; some mourn; with people, so with trees.

Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...

just hope that maybe some people will read about us and see how we weren't manufactured," Watt says, "that we were just three dudes from Pedro and that maybe they could do the same thing themselves.

I just hope that maybe some people will read about us and see how we weren't manufactured," Watt says, "that we were just three dudes from Pedro and that maybe they could do the same thing themselves.

Basically, we were misfits, we were people who were looking for a tribe—we didn't feel comfortable in society, so we were looking for our own society

Punk was not something to grow out of; it was something to grow with—it was a valid, sustainable way to live one's life. "That's when I started to focus on the idea of what we were doing as being real, of being a working model of a real community, an alternative community that could continue to exist outside of the mainstream—and legitimately, and self-supporting," says MacKaye.

We'd pull into a town," Haynes said, "and we didn't know where the clubs were. We'd literally pull over somebody and say, 'Hey, where do the queers hang out? Where's the college area?

I love staying with people," says MacKaye. "I love doing the driving. I love having to load equipment. The experiences are things that a lot of people never have.

Singing is an inclusive thing. It gives somebody something to do at a concert—they feel like they're a part of it…. When I see people singing, it makes me feel like I'm getting something back.

Picciotto recalled when he was a teenager writing to obscure English punk bands like Rudimentary Peni, Dead Wretched, and Blitz. "Those fuckers wrote us back, and it blew my mind," recalls Picciotto. "It was so cool to feel that connection. I've always kept that in mind. If someone writes you, you send them a letter back. It's just a cool thing to do.

Although Mission of Burma and some of the other great Boston bands at the time were truly world class, the indie rock scene in Boston was pretty small and generally unknown to the populace at large," says Kates. "In a city where money and education and insurance and things like that dominate the workforce, what we did wasn't understood by the average person.

We felt real strongly about supporting the local scene," Miller says. "I'm not nationalistic, but if you're in the area, you should work where you are. You have to support that which is growing around you.

they also went out of their way to play all-ages shows, often hurting their draw by playing two sets a night.

We" was a sprawling cooperative of fanzines, underground and college radio stations, local cable access shows, mom-and-pop record stores, independent distributors and record labels, tip sheets, nightclubs and alternative venues, booking agents, bands, and fans that had been thriving for more than a decade before the mainstream took notice.

nerdier, more sensitive bunch who weren't interested in perpetuating the malice and exclusion they had felt growing up.

They developed this influence and this clout and they shared it. It's a very inclusive movement.