Quotes About Community

Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.

Nigeria has a lot of Man City fans, and they're going to have more every time I go home.

Everyone has met or seen or interacted with a Nigerian in America because we leave Nigeria for here. We're your doctors. We're your lawyers. We're your child's best friend. All of the above.

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.

'Friday Night Lights' was an incredible show.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

I'll never forget where I came from or who my friends are. But I know there is a time and a place to be with them. That's not being with 20 or 30 people in a nightclub or walking around the streets.

I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

When I was in nightclubs, I thought they were a really important way for young people who come to New York to meet people and connect.

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people for the majority of the day, and it kind of trickles into nightlife and all that. People stay within their circles and there's no real mingling to be had.

This is what gay nightlife is: It's about building an image. You are constantly in proprioception where you're clocking your own movement through space constantly.

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

For me, it was really important to immerse myself in the New York nightlife drag scene and become an integral part of that community.

I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about people in this gross industry, but they actually treat each other kind of like family. And at the end of the day, they're really kind to each other, and I feel like that is what we have.

I love board games. You'll find me enjoying board-game nights rather than out at a bar.

A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.

I had to build my name here by doing talent nights, talent competitions and networking and meeting all the working girls and figure out how to work this animal of New York City.

We went to Baptist church as a family, and that took up so many nights a week.

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.