Quotes About Community

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.

To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

No individual can win a game by himself.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.