Quotes About Community

Kendrick Lamar, he has stood up for peace and love in our community. When he could have just stood up for himself.

I remember so many times, playing for City in which Man United would give us a whooping, and the fans always stood beside us.

I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone's attention.

I grew up basically in a predominantly, you know, white community and I was mixed but as a kid you don't know that. So I was always different, always stood out and people would always make fun of me.

If you look at South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, it was people of the world who held their hands together and stood up to make a difference. So 'people power' is important.

I feel grateful and indebted to the people who have stood by me.

I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop.

It was great growing up in Brooklyn. The neighborhood was the street. Everybody would get together after school. Somebody would sit out on a stoop and then five other people, 10 other people would come out - a game of stickball or stoopball or dodgeball - all revolved around a basketball or dodgeball. We had fun.

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me.

You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

I've never stopped being a Hoosier.