- Gay Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Community Quotes
Community is built, not just found.
These quotes cover community at different scales - a performer discovering their craft through local theater, the identity and security that comes from a shared racial or cultural community, and comedians building connection through shared inside jokes. Related reading in Communities Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the roles of a lifetime to be able to play someone like Mr. Cochran who was so influential. People knew about his work in regard to police brutality. He was very much a staple in the community - someone who, if there was trouble, people knew, 'Go get Johnnie Cochran.'
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we're broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
- Deaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 40 per cent of my viewers are female. When I do meetups and events, oftentimes the majority of people who show up are LGBTQ+. So I'm looking forward to better serving that community of fans.
- Gay Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a teenager, a gay teenager, in such a small village is not that much fun. I am part of the gay community and most gays have a similar story to mine.
- Defiance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.
- High Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020