Quotes About Community

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution.

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.

I think the pollution due to crackers is coming down every year. I hope more people join in towards celebrating a non-polluted and eco-friendly Diwali.

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

The comedy world is like a small pond; we all know each other.

I heard it from a friend of mine who told me about a group of people where he grew up in Detroit who called themselves Pony Boys that souped up Nitro cars.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.