Quotes About Community

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.

The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.

Basically, I played football to share with others, to excel together, to achieve a goal. After, we all have our ego, our pride and our personality. But all alone, in football, it does not work.

My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.

Being part of the TV industry for so long, I have met and learned a lot from some exceptional women, be it actors, writers, or creatives.

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

What I love most about Zumba is that they make exercising fun and make it accessible to everyone all over the world.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

I really have this desire to make it known that the Internet exists and YouTubers are important. And not only are YouTubers important, our followings are incredible.

It is the people of Kerala and their expectations that have made me what I am today.

I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

I love where I'm from. I love the landscape because it is so beautiful, and I also love the people of my community, the people whose stories I'm trying to tell.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

One of the biggest motivators is to be part of something larger than yourself.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.