Quotes About Community

I like being able to walk or ride my bike to restaurants and do different things.

I just wanted to put together the best Latinx writers. I didn't care about the level.They have a passion for 'Vida' in a different way, in a higher way.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.

None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.

Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

In difficult times, most of us need friends.

The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.

We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

We are a party that believes in dignity and respect for one another. We can't say that is what we want in the country if we don't behave like that ourselves.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

Every WP member can bring in a member of any race and religion. I think it's probably healthy we do it that way rather than play up the racial dimension too much.

I just feel like the most important conversations I've had in my life have been at a diner counter.

I don't want to live in a world without the diner and the coffee shop and the mom and pop places, the ethnic restaurants.

I like diner coffee.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

Shared dining fortifies us.

If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.