Quotes About Community

My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

Almost every woman I've met has encountered bullying.

Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family.

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

Dance routines for 'Meta Taro' are easy to remember, so this is a song for every generation from little kids to seniors to enjoy our shows by dancing together. I hope the song will be a gateway into metal music for the non-metal audience.

I agree that it's a macho world, metal, but it's also a very, very social world, where people are loving music in respect for one another, female or male.

Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music - very sacred.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.

So many bands would say that they were alternative, or they were this or that... 'Heavy metal' was a pretty uncool word after about 1992; it was almost like, 'Stay away.' But it didn't bother us one bit. And our fans were the best ever.

People get into metal and they don't drift away from it. They might have families and move away a little, but they certainly don't forget about it.

I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.

We love metal.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

I felt like we used to hold ourselves in a box based on fear. Will the metal community accept us. Is this heavy enough? Is this not heavy enough?

I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

We don't care who you is - Blood, Crip, Mexican, Chinese. You feel me? If you about doing something positive with yourself and your community, let's join forces together.

I grew up in a predominantly Asian and Mexican community, and because I did breakdance and poplock and all that, I did get a lot of criticism: 'You're Mexican, why are you doing that?'

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.