Quotes About Community

I met Snoop through church when we was, like, 13 or 14. You know, they had them little church picnics and basketball games, and that's where I got to know him.

It's nuts to me that people want to take a picture with me or want to tell me a story about their family. If they want to give it to me, I'll always take it. It's never intrusive.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.

When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That's the cheat code if you ain't got a hit.

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie.

Wigan is the town I come from. We're all known as pie eaters in Wigan.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

Frankly, the hardest pieces of feedback we got in the U.S. was, 'I would love if more of our friends were on Path. It's hard to get them to join.'

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.

Jefferson Pierce is the epitome of what black men are: He loves his wife, his children, and the community.