Quotes About Community

If we defend, we all defend.

I defend the Brazilian people.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.

The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.

With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

The party is defined by the people that are in it, not necessarily the politicians.

For me, a place is defined by the kind of people inhabiting it.

We can all be defined by food.

In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

Alabama is defined by its people. It's that simple.

Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.

Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.

I'm definitely active in the community down there in Charleston.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down.

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation.

Our whole community is made better when students earn the credentials or degrees they need to find a better-paying job that will help them support themselves and their families.