Quotes About Community

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want to use the word war on terror because he was raised in that community.

My life anuh fi me alone... My life a fi people... Fi help plenty people... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.