Quotes About Community

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

Social distancing does not mean isolation. Call and video chat with friends and loved ones.

Of course we need independence, but who says that should mean doing everything alone and in isolation? That won't make us stronger. Together is always better.

Isolationism is over.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

The citizens of Israel come first.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.

The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.

I'd like to see the haredim become part of the Israeli society.

Israeli Arabs are equal citizens.

Most of the Israelis reside in settlement blocs which will be part of the state of Israel in the future, and they will remain in their homes.

We are the greatest experts in the world in criticizing our country, but no one loves his country more than the Israelis. No one.

When Will and I were growing up in Los Angeles, his girlfriends were always Israeli, so we'd always be hanging out with Israelis in L.A.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.