Quotes About Community

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.

No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

But he knows that no man is an island.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.