Quotes About Community

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

Knowing someone else is going through the bizarreness of pregnancy with you makes it feel a little less impossible.

I really loved being pregnant, especially because people treat you so nice.

My mom was pregnant with me when she was 15 years old. She went to a majority white school so of course her being 15 years old, pregnant by a Black man, that was just too much for them to handle.

Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that's fair to everyone, that's free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

Making our communities safer for all Americans, combatting longstanding prejudices, and ending discrimination should be issues where we can find common ground.

The love the people of Leicester showed towards me was incredible. Even more than winning the Premier League.

They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa.

It's really great to see all the people who've become involved in building up the Premier League, especially in the States.

In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in any cinema hall, where you are not with like-minded people.

I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.

When the idea of 'We' came in, it started as a 'WeBlank: WeWork, WeLive, WeSleep, WeEat.' That was the premise at the very start.

Academies place a high premium on local community engagement.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.