Quotes About Community

Even if you don't like what I do, and you don't like my band, you might have a fan that likes both of us, and why would you wanna alienate them?

I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!

Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

Like Lenny Kravitz, I wanna make the world a better place; I wanna unify people.

I could help a lot of people's kids that are going through racism or getting bullied. That's what I wanna do.

I felt very motivated to release some things in English because I wanna represent my community.

I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.

You wanna champion someone from your city and it blows it up.

I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.

If you go back to the hood in America, I think most of them look at me like an icon. An icon is somebody they wanna be. Somebody who can relate to everything that they're going through at the time. So, I'm definitely an icon.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

I don't want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves. If I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

I dreamed of being a nurse because I wanted to tangibly help the people I saw every day.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.