Quotes About Community

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.

New Yorkers tend to have a wall up. Being from the South, I didn't have that. It helped me meet a lot of people. And, as a Southerner, I love wearing color. New York is a sea of black. My popping out in pink was definitely noticed.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

My mother raised 14 kids, with little means, from our humble house in Southwest Detroit - and now her daughter, who started school not speaking English, is going to be a congresswoman. It was so important for her to know her strength got me here, and that I'm going to fight every day with her spirit inside me.

I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.

I am from Brookhaven, a small town in Southwest Mississippi.

I believe it is important for both Russia and Europe that Belarus is a sovereign, independent state where Europeans can feel at home.

If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe.

We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

I'm actually like a hole-in-the-wall coffee shop kind of guy. So I love the local shops that are kind of like one-off chains in Los Angeles, and I usually get a soy flat white.