Quotes About Community

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

Especially going to Oakland public schools where as a white kid you have to figure out if you're going to sink or swim socially, one of the main ways to stay buoyant was to stay funny.

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families - and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

When you're not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it's important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

As Governor, I'll work to improve police-community relationships, because everyone is safer when a sense of mutual trust and respect prevails.

The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.

A lot of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

Panic moves you to hoard essentials and prevent others from getting what they need.