Quotes About Community

You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and pick yourself up again. And putting yourself back together, that improves on what you were before.

I feel the American people are resilient.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.

Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of politics, of resistance.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Let's resolve in 2019 to lift up our communities, as well as each other.

If you do right by people, and you talk to the basic issues most people care about and have a vision for how we can achieve so much more as a country, as a community, I believe that resonates with people.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

One of the things I'm most proud of in Atlanta is that I had a great relationship with our fans and I think they knew what I was all about. They respected me, showed me nothing but love.

I try my best to try to respond to people, especially through Twitter.

People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.

It's so important to talk to the first responders.

Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

It doesn't matter whether I'm in Hackensack or Hackettstown, the response from the people is the same: They are concerned about jobs, the economy.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

I know my responsibilities. They are to my religion, my parents, my wife, my family and my community.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.

I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.

There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he's eaten at my house, or I've eaten at his house.