Quotes About Community

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

Virginians deserve civility.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.

If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

I'm proud that I can represent, within Cyborg, a couple of different groups. One being people of color, but also, Cyborg is a superhero that is in many ways disabled. So, being able to give representation from that end as well is something that's really powerful to me.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world. I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool. When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.

When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was 'relatable.'

To come and turn the TV on and see Black Lightning trying to make a change and being a leader and stepping up, I hope that it inspires people within their own communities to try to make a change and to walk in their own superhero.

Most superhero shows are set in an alternative universe. 'Black Lightning' is literally in the hood. He's going inside of the ghetto and trying to make a difference.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

It's not just superheroes that make a story great.

Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

Gay people are all like Superman. You have to be quite strong to be gay - or to be different in any way. You build special muscles.