Quotes About Community

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Mates are supposed to look after each other, right?

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

I've met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it's just not real. We've set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that's supposed to be a community, like a real community. It's supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

Pets are supposedly a great way to meet people.

I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

We don't want people to think of Supreme as this hard-to-get, exclusive brand. We're a brand of the people.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

Columbus is considered my second home, so I definitely miss Columbus for many different reasons. I definitely miss the good times I had there and I miss the guys for sure.