Quotes About Community

Y es que las obras maestras no son logros aislados y solitarios; son el resultado de muchos años de pensamiento en común, del pensamiento colectivo de muchas personas, de tal suerte que, tras esa voz individual, se encuentra la experiencia de la masa (p. 89).

she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream...

she felt herself everywhere; not "here, here, here"; and she tapped the back of the seat; but everywhere. She waved her hand, going up Shaftesbury Avenue. She was all that. So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places. Odd affinities she had with people she had never spoken to, some woman in the street, some man behind a counter—even trees, or barns.

Je ne crois pas à la valeur des existences séparées. Aucun de nous n'est complet en lui seul.

Pero, dijo Clarissa, sentada en el autobús que ascendía por Shaftesbury Avenue, ella se sentía en todas partes; no «aquí, aquí, aquí»; y golpeó el respaldo del asiento; sino en todas partes. Clarissa agitó la mano, mientras ascendían por Shaftesbury Avenue. Ella era todo aquello. De manera que, para conocer a Clarissa, o para conocer a cualquiera, uno debía buscar a la gente que lo completaba; incluso los lugares.

But if I find myself in company with other people, words at once make smoke rings - see how phrases at once begin to wreathe off my lips.

Una buena cena es de suma importancia para una buena conversación. No se puede pensar bien, amar bien, dormir bien, si no se ha cenado bien.

las obras maestras no son logros aislados y solitarios, son el resultado de muchos años de pensamiento en común, del pensamiento colectivo de muchas personas

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

o que podemos supor que fazem as mulheres quando buscam a companhia das outras?

They alone live, who live for others.

As I saw myself moving ever farther toward the social margin, nothing healed me of a sore and angry heart like a walk through the city. To see in the street the fifty different ways people struggle to remain human—the variety and inventiveness of survival techniques—was to feel the pressure relieved, the overflow draining off. I felt in my nerve endings the common refusal to go under.

But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not Punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

Encouraging refutation sharpens everyone's thinking and builds better collective wisdom

I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil.

I'm looking for a house In the world Where white shadows Will not fall. There is no such house, Dark brother, No such house At all.

You are white- Yet a part of me as I am a part of you. That's American.... AsI learn from you, I guess you learn from me- Although you're older-and white- And somewhat more free.

But the way you talk, fun is first and foremost. You imply that there is no fun to be had around white folks." "I never had none," said Simple.

Union : Not me alone-- I know now-- But all the whole oppressed Poor world, White and black, Must put their hands with mine To shake the pillars of those temples Wherein the false gods dwell And worn-out altars stand Too well defended, And the rule of greed's upheld- That must be ended.

Friend, I am thinking about money--which goes beyond race. If all the Negroes in the world had money, the color problem would be solved in the morning.

Take Harlem's heartbeat, Make a drumbeat, Put it on a record, let it whirl, And while we listen to it play, Dance with you till day— Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne.

I would like to see an America where people of any race, color or creed may live on a plane of cultural, material well-being, cooperating unhindered by sectarian, racial, or factional prejudices that do nobody any good.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.