Quotes About Community

I grew up around a lot of foreign people - it was a big mix but there were never any problems.

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.

It's not a bad thing for independent traders to come into a high street to mix things up, but what shouldn't happen is that the traders who were there before are priced out.

There are a mix of good and bad people everywhere, be it Punjab, Delhi or Haryana.

I like to set up bars at my parties so people can make their own cocktails and mix and match and teach each other different things.

It's definitely a different mix of people than we see in Hollywood. That's what makes the Derby unique.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

Often, when you go to the movies or the theatre, you think, Jesus Christ, everybody is white. But my daughter goes to an amazing dance school called Ballet Black, and they have every colour: dark, white, mixed. It looks like the future to me.

My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.

People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it's just like with any martial art - you've got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students.

Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

With theatre, we are always trying to engage in a conversation with people and to bring people into that conversation, but I was disappointed the audiences were not as mixed as I hoped they would become.

I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.