Quotes About Community

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.

It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Keeping young people out of community work sponsored by faith groups means an entire generation won't be as well-equipped to think and believe for themselves.

I was sponsored to go to the U.S. and became a Black Eyed Peas, and now I'm paying it forward and helping other children like me.

We see ourselves as part of a larger gaming ecosystem: You've got broadcasters, game developers, sponsors, and of course the video platforms like TwitchTV.

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa in the early 19th century. You need them. And you need sponsorship on a daily basis. I have a painter friend here who says, 'I need two compliments a day just to break even.' And we gave them to each other, and we got them - and honestly got them.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

If I'm honest, my heart and my belly are saying that you're more likely to find me in a greasy spoon than a pop-up, but some of this pop-up stuff is great!