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“But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?”

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Book:Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Source: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

“Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.”

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Author:Lee Haney

“I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.”

“I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.”

“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.”

Ifs Years Different Sometimes Moving Community Poverty Five Easier Racism Years Ago Who You Are Terror Thirty Five Years Immigrants Target Lgbt Community Centers

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.”

“Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.”

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Author:Millard Fuller

“A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.”

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Author:Lisa Bonet

“Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.”

America Culture Left Community Degrees Reflection Library Connected Locals Branches Sole Public Library Community Centers

Book:Lost Memory of Skin

Source: Lost Memory of Skin

“I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.”

School Girl Community Team Basketball High School Shots Balls Lays Stealing Hebrew Basketball Team Specialty Roving Community Centers

Author:Elinor Lipman

“Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.”

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Author:Eboo Patel

“[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.”

“Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.”

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Author:Denis McDonough