Quotes About Community

In Chile and in other places, people recognize me, and everything I've been able to pick up from this experience is people caring about me.

I love Baltimore, I miss the people, but I think L.A. is way more chill.

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

I'm not religious but there's something about being in a church at Christmas and listening to a choir sing.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

I was the star of the choir.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

I grew up singing in a church choir.

Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

Well, I actually grew up singing in church, and I was in choirs.

Our mandate is to sing for everyone. We don't just sing for one group or sing one genre... This is everybody's choir.

And I've teamed up with a choir from home. They're called the Gori Women's Choir. They're a 23-piece all-female choir, and they've been going since the '70s.

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a choir. I would just watch and listen. Finally I started at least attempting to try to do what they was doing. When I was younger, we started going to church. I can't say that we were always, you know, the most church-going people.

I was president of the choreography society.

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that are different. And what we chose to do was to focus on people coming together, working across those barriers of race, of culture, of religion, and really finding a heart connection.

I chose 'BronxWorks' because I'm from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and how it is growing up in The Bronx.

All I care about - I can either be someone of the industry, or I can be someone of the people. And I chose to be someone of the people at the sake of burning a lot of small bridges within the industry.