Quotes About Community

We didn't have much in common, but I thought that being gay in common would be enough.

There was nothing very cheerful about the cold, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness that the cleverest summer air and brightest summer sun couldn't have compared with. Everyone was in this together.

People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding. But if that's true, why do they always find us?

This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted - surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen -A

Ulimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

People called them freaks not because they were identical but because they were so damn happy.

Os gays de hoje, os gays de ontem, somos todos o mesmo incômodo, o mesmo pessoas. Não pessoas, na verdade. Só uma coisa sobre a qual gritar.

We are so much louder together than apart. We are so much brighter together than apart.

We are graced, and we are together, and the loneliness and the doubt and the fear. We are making it through.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember I am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.

Maybe we're the pieces,' 'What?' 'Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.' Tikkun olam.

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in service to ourselves.

The point of books was to combat loneliness

When chimpanzees embark on a raid, their behavior resembles a monkey hunt. They're out for blood—but this time it's the blood of a member of their own species. Based on chimpanzees' alert, enthusiastic behavior, these raids are exciting events for them.… During these raids on other communities the attackers do as they do while hunting monkeys, except that the target "prey" is a member of their own species.

Human isn't a scientific concept at all. It's a folk-concept that means, roughly, one of us. As Rorty insightfully observes, such people "are morally offended Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by the suggestion that they treat people whom they do not think of as human as if they were human.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

Madison is a very enlightened, idealized Midwestern place, and the people there are friendly.

What do you want? The answer to that is both simple and very complicated. To sit down somewhere without worrying that he soon has to run off again. To talk to people who do not shun him. To smell the air exhaled by a woman. To eat the food she hands him and see the flutter of her hands as she talks. To go home.

I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the very edge of the known world. To protect what? A hundred or so mud and wattle huts, three hundred savage strangers who do not even speak my tongue. And, of course, my own skin.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired of being different and making the other elephants laugh.

Security is having a home town. - Charles Schulz