Quotes About Community

The masses of Harlem get a good deal of pleasure out of things far too simple for most other folks.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

To many, especially among coloured people, a Harlem night-club is a den of iniquity, where the Devil holds high revel. The fact is that the average night-club is as orderly as many a Sunday-school picnic has been.

Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.

I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men.

Presence is one of the profound forms of Christian witness.

My excursions into "horse politics" and "the alphabets" were to pay my debt to society by serving in the political trenches of the equestrian world, but horse politics never defined me. It took horses to do that.

However, eventing was still a small, disorganized group of people who wanted to gallop at speed over solid obstacles and then party like hell that night.

Daddy tolerated this, but her exploded on Sunday night after the last competitor had left: "Goddamnit, Dot, horse show people are crazy, but dog show people are the lunatic fringe of humanity." We never hosted the Specialty Show again.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

One did not visit another person's home lightly. Such a visit invariably expanded the dimensions of a relationship. p 86

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

Social media has transformed our world into one great big small town, dominated, as all vibrant towns used to be, by the strength of relationships, the currency of caring, and the power of word of mouth." Gary Vaynerchuk, Entrepreneur and social media specialist

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

On the way, Sister and Brother noticed a group of bears playing Christmas carols. They were collecting money for the needy in a big black pot. Brother and Sister looked at each other, dug into their pockets, and dropped all of their money into the pot. Mama and Papa smiled with pride.

Attack and adversity contribute to national cohesion in a way that success and affluence do not

It has been almost 50 years since American journalist and author Jane Jacobs published her seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961.1 She pointed out how the dramatic increase in car traffic and the urban planning ideology of modernism that separates the uses of the city and emphasizes free-standing individual buildings would put an end to urban space and city life and result in lifeless cities devoid of people.

Life happens on foot. Man was created to walk, and all of life's events large and small develop when we walk among other people.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

If I have any excuse to offer, it is that in here we do not view our neighbours as they do out there.