Quotes About Community

Though I come from Delhi, many other artistes like me attained success in Maharashtra.

Delhi is like my second home.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

My father initiated me to the Hanuman Chalisa and my mother to the rituals and community feelings of Durga Puja. I still have that in me and want to come back to Delhi whenever I can to imbibe more.

I have lived in South Delhi amidst greenery.

The society in which we live in Delhi is conservative.

Delhi - the entire north - has given me so much love. It has given me an identity, so I have no shame in being called a Delhi dude.

If I miss anything about Delhi, it is my friends and the community living style.

When I started, I was very deliberate about making friends with people like John Mulaney who were really funny and wanted to go up and do as many open mics as I did.

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

It's hard enough to celebrate being Asian in normal times. But now, when the whole world is kind of coming down, with all this rhetoric and people getting attacked on the street, you really need to deliberately try to celebrate Asian-ness.

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are. Ask what would help. And then deliver it.

My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I am someone from Karnataka who could deliver.

I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from white people and the cops if we don't respect each other.

Start with the young, work with them until they are adults, and they will demand real food.

Building back better demands that we build back better for everyone - and that we leave no one and no community behind.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.

I'm going to continue doing what I do, which is trying to make a personal connection with as many people as I humanly can to let them know that you may be a Republican and I'm a Democrat, but I've got your back.