Quotes About Community

The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.

Whenever I go back home, I make sure I can attend a Blue Jackets game.

In Buffalo, you can't imagine how much people revere Fred Jackson because of his high character, his community involvement, coming from a Division III school.

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Some kid who thinks he's cool can say, 'Hey, I'm down with Jah.' It's the same thing as saying, 'I'm down with God.' If it's easier for you to relate that way, then cool.

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

My friends, a lot of them have gone to jail, gone to the penitentiary, things of that matter.

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.

Comic-Con is my jam!

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.

When I was about 15 years old, I used to have a lot of jam sessions at my house. And all the kids would kind of come over, and I would kind of deejay some music that I discovered that month.

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

Being in Jamaica, I feel comfortable there.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.