Quotes About Community

Where I was brought up, if you were walking down the street and you looked at someone and they looked at you, you acknowledged them.

I have always been an active part of my community.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.

I make most of my friends through my extracurricular activities.

I feel like L.A. is my actual home.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

Find a place where you add value to a community.

Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

We have to see the sufferings of Punjab and focus ourselves to address them.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.

I kind of adopt family friends and take people in.

D.C. basketball has adopted me, and I consider D.C. home.