I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.
I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
