Quotes About Community

I never wanted to be called a fan, and that's no disrespect to any artist who calls them fans, but I never wanted a boundary in between the people listening to my music and me - for them to feel like I'm doing something that they can't do.

I would never disrespect the fans that helped me get to who I am.

Calling a criminal Brahmin is disrespect of the entire Brahmin community.

Homesharing is about dialogue, not disruption.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

Usually, when people are sick, you go and help them, but Covid is such that you cannot be around them, but help from a distance. I think that hit me. Some people have nobody to go out and buy things for them, nobody to make any food.

The President must not be such a distant person.

I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out of there, because my music is so different from anybody else who came out of there.

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.

When it comes to fighting for progress in Boston, there's a long history of people in power trying to label advocacy and hard work as being political in order to avoid accountability and distract from community demands for better leadership.

Serving the people of Colorado's Third Congressional District is the greatest honor of my life.

I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.

It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.

Every decision I make in Congress will be centered on the needs of the district.

I would never tell the president of the United States not to come to my district.

One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

We became quite famous in our district. People came especially to watch us. And I used to love it when we heard them saying, 'There go the girls who beat boys.'

We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.