“I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.” InspirationalHappensMotivationalCommunityHonestLike YouGayWho You AreTransBisexual Author:Chaz Bono
“I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.” PeopleThinkingMatterStoriesFoundCommunityLike YouThings Change Author:Eve Ensler
“Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.” PeopleIfsMenLooksBlackCommunityLike YouEntertainmentRapRapper Author:Killer Mike
“With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.” WayFeelsCommunityTvsLike YouTheaterCastsCrewContinuum Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingTogetherCoursesCommunityTechnologyCreativeDogDesignBuildingLike YouInternetMachinesBasesDeeperDrivenCodeFreakCapitalistThrust Author:Terence McKenna
“Acting is fun. I enjoy it, but there is just not many opportunities to do it on a serious level. It is kind of either bad community musicals, or if you are lucky enough to be cast in something serious. I feel like you really have to be going after it, and for me I am a little bit distracted.” IfsFeelsKindLittlesEnoughOpportunityFunBitsEnjoyCommunityLevelsActingSeriousLike YouLuckyLittle BitCastsDistracted Author:Thomston
“There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made.” KnowsMadePlayBodyFormCommunityDecisionPayPlayerLike YouIntentionDecision Making Author:Jill Stein
“It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].” FeelsKindCommunityBrotherLike YouInvitedCoen Brothers Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better.” PeopleKnowsWantSometimesHelpingHappensGuyAsksStuffCommunityChanceOpinionCasesLike YouOptimisticHatefulMuslim Community Author:Keith Ellison
“That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure of the intellectual community, including scholarship and the media. It's not like you had headlines all over the place. And it's not secret, the documents are there. And I think that's probably the right picture.” PeopleThinkingYearsWarRealCommunitySecretMediaLike YouColdWeaponsIntellectualStrategyIncludingNuclearPostsNuclear WeaponsDocumentsCold WarScholarshipHeadlines Author:Noam Chomsky
“With Twitter people oddly feel accountable for what they write. When someone is unkind, the community rallies like you wouldn't believe to shut it down.” PeopleFeelsWritingBelieveCommunityLike YouUnkind Author:Demi Moore
“If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is.” IfsTryingStatesStoriesHomeHappensWould BeAbleEnergyCommunityUnitedUnited StatesSeriousHugeLike YouTerribleClimateClimate ChangePopulationCorporationsPropagandaHeatProposalTerrible ThingsOpposing Author:Noam Chomsky
“The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.” PeopleGivingBelieveCommunityMillionsTechnologyDoubtStreetsInformationChangedLike YouInternetEssentialsFindingsNewsEvolveDiscussionVisibleInsecurityNeighborhoodOnlineCrucialHopelessnessGiving InSpeaking Out Author:Nate Powell