Quotes About Community

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and home.

I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem common but are amazing.

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans who would say, 'Amen.'

America belongs to all of us. The promise of America belongs to all of us.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.

I promise to be the best missionary I can - a Mormon missionary for the LGBTQ community - and to hopefully use this privilege I've been given to give them a voice.

I have come to believe that America is a promise we have made to one another.

Baltimore obviously has a lot of problems, but there are people there that have a lot of promise.

Labour can and must offer hope: not the falsehood that it will do everything, but the real promise that it can help us help each other.

I will never forget being in Akron the day the I Promise School opened its doors for the very first time. You could just feel the magnitude of that moment.