Quotes About Community

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I'm just Ken.

Growing up I wasn't aware of a single gay person in our town. The only people who were gay that you had any idea of were Kenny Everett and people like him on TV. I thought, that's not what I am.

When I lived in Whitstable, Kent, I used a Harvester all the time in Herne Bay and people used to say, 'I didn't expect to see you in here.' Why wouldn't I be in here?

We all want Kentucky to be a place where our children and grandchildren want to - and can afford to raise their own children, keeping families together and growing our commonwealth. For the common good.

I'll be a governor that fights for Kentucky families.

It's not about left or right, red or blue. It's about doing what is right for Kentucky.

I deeply wish to help move Kentucky and our country forward and I can assure you that I will continue to speak out on the important issues of the day.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

I grew up in Murray, Kentucky. My wife is from there, also.

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.

There's so much to do in Paducah, Kentucky... Paducah's pretty cool, man.

As governor, I'll treat all Kentucky families with dignity and respect.

I'll be a governor who looks out for Kentucky families.

Like half of Kentucky, my family has pre-existing conditions.

I was honored to have the endorsement of the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police, and they expect me to really advocate for our law enforcement community for a commonwealth and county attorneys.

I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

Kevin Gamble was one of the first NBA players from my city.

I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.