Quotes About Community

Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life.

Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn't view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I was also aware that I was.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.