Quotes About Community

I loved Hackney because they embraced me really, like with open arms.

My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.

MMA has been very accepting. I wouldn't say that every gym you go to is as open as the gym I'm a part of. But they just accepted me with open arms.

We want to have a system where people can come here and work - go back and forth if they want to... so that we have an open door to the people who want to come and contribute to our country, who want to come and make a difference in their families' lives and our economy.

Guys cross train all the time. That's what Alpha Male's known for, guys have open doors to come in all the time.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people.

I want to share what I have, and I'd rather share it with people that are a little bit more open-minded.

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

Ranchi is a much better place than Mumbai or any other big city in the country. People here are simple and open-minded.

Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

I just opened a free, public MMA gym in Paraiba, so why can't Curitiba or Sao Paulo have one? No money? Someone needs to do this.

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.

This natural-hair movement has opened up the door for us to do so many things, for us to have conversations that we weren't able to have. We need this in our communities.

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

Sonya has opened up a huge light for me. Now that we travel so much together around the world, she's helped me open up and be so involved in the LGBTQ community.

Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.