Quotes About Community

Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.

When I was at Lakeridge High School, in my junior and senior years, my choir and theater department raised money so we could go to New York and see Broadway shows. It really changed my life.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

I loved my juniors growing up and how fun it was.

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'

Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.

I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too.

I love working with the youth. I am just as new to the gospel as lot of the kids, so I get just as much out of it as they do. Just being around them makes it one of the best callings.

When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone's feeling good and doing their best. Not to just be the only one in the room that's shining.

I don't want my life to just be about me.

I love being online because I feel like you can just be yourself and it's so easy to open up.

Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.

Don't edit yourself too much. Don't be afraid of looking stupid, 'cool' is so rarely funny I think. And just do it! Do as many gigs as you possibly can, and watch as many gigs as you possibly can. You'll get the rhythm of it in your head and make lovely friends.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.

People always talk about 'Oh, it's so nice that you give back.' It just kind of becomes words. When you see it, when you actually put it together and you see the amount of impact you have on a kid, they're going to remember this for the rest of their life.

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

The people behind me are the people behind Aristide. They are just looking for better days.

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.