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Quotes About Community

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
~ Sherman Alexie
Our future is about investing in our own people.
~ Bill de Blasio
I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.
~ Jorge M. Perez
Instead of investing our resources in locking people up, let's invest more of those resources in our fellow citizens so they don't end up in the system to begin with. And if they do, they can get back on their feet.
~ John Legend
I'm very focused on giving back, investing, and growing my community.
~ Richelieu Dennis
London is becoming more of a business than a place for families. You can't live here. We're not investing in the future.
~ Michail Antonio
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
~ Jaron Lanier
I think with most things online, if you treat your audience like friends instead of like Impressions and Clickthrough Percentages and Returns On Investment, then you're off to a great start.
~ Ryan North
Human Needs Project is really about how to come up with a different approach to helping, really focusing on the dignity of people living in communities you are not a part of, and how to approach these communities with help, but more look at it as an investment and a collaboration with these communities rather than, 'Here comes the white savior!'
~ Connie Nielsen
I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.
~ Naveen Patnaik
Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.
~ Seth Moulton
We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.
~ Douglas Leone
Community interest companies are a growing form of regulated social enterprises, and we want to make sure that the rules are as friendly as possible for investors and social enterprises.
~ David Gauke
Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.
~ Anthea Butler
Bisexuality often needs an explanation. It isn't something you can often 'read' on a person, and because of that, bi people sometimes feel like an invisible part of the LGBTQIA community.
~ Stephanie Beatriz
Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.
~ Ben Domenech
Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.
~ Stuart Hall
People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
~ Amber Tamblyn
I have people around me. I have a semi-permanent crew. If I make a film, they just turn up. They don't even invite themselves. They don't ask if they can come - they just turn up!
~ Stephen Frears
The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.
~ Mae Jemison
A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.
~ Karamo Brown
When you say yes to the invite of someone new, you're also saying yes to their network. And their network contains people you may be attracted to.
~ Matthew Hussey
Together with MAC, I am excited to invite and empower more audiences as we both have individuality and diversity at our core.
~ Lisa