Community Quotes · Page 153

I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our…

— Bell Hooks

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

— Bill Gurley

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

— Robert Kennedy

I represent my community, and I represent my people. And I've got to be honest if something seems questionable.

— Wyatt Cenac

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

— Wayne Dyer

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

— Rand Paul

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer…

— Donald Bren

I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think accurately presenting a trans character means not presenting them as perfect - I think there's been a pressure to do…

— Nicole Maines

I know what it's like to have loved ones who go off to protect and to serve, and the fear of not…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

“What will make the people in your neighborhood be glad you are there? Connect with individuals and leaders in the community and…

— Timothy Keller

“The idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a…

— Hanzi Freinacht

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and…

— Rashida Jones

I've played a lot of tough guys in movies over the years, but you know what? Looking cool and saying lines that…

— Nick Searcy

“A highly placed con man does more harm to society than a stone cold killer. Perhhaps not to the single victem who's…

— Kate Gordon

Globalization has not only lost its promise but is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but…

— Walden Bello

Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next…

— Winston Damarillo

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my…

— Claire McCaskill

As an Egyptian, I was glad to see the film 'Black Panther' embrace my country with its inclusion of the Ancient Egyptian…

— Mona Eltahawy

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they…

— Pankaj Mishra

I always love to help the community, to interact with the kids, with the fans. It doesn't matter who I am on…

— Rudy Gobert

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

— Russell Simmons

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

— Lewis B. Smedes

“I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.”

— Madeleine Thien

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

— Helene D. Gayle

“T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?” “Damn.”

— Angie Thomas

I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and…

— Crystal Bowersox

Whatever we are we belong together. Wherever we are, we will find each other. Whoever we are we are forever one.

— Leonard Nimoy

“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.”

— Amit Kalantri

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

— Ron Fournier

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

— C. S. Lewis

If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.

— Adam Neumann

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

— Rollo May

All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

— The Beatles

How do you say 'thank you' to a community who gave you a second chance? A lot of people don't get a…

— Kim Reynolds

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded…

— Terry Tempest Williams