Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.
David Levering Lewis
CommunityYouPlaceStudentOff
If you look at the history of the LGBTQ community, from my perspective growing up as I did in the U.K. in the '50s, there was just terrible, terrible discrimination, you know? It was extremely difficult to live your life as you should have been allowed to do.
Rob Halford
LifeLiveCommunityHistoryLook
A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.
James Clapper
CommunityRespectDecisionKeyPlay
In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
WorkWomenCommunityPeopleWriting
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
Tim Murphy
CommunityHealthMedicalInsurance
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
Howard Rheingold
TechnologyCommunitySoftwareDriver
There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
Ana Navarro
CommunityPromisesImmigrationYear
While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.
Vir Das
CommunityBe DifferentWillMumbai
The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.
Lisa Murkowski
BusinessCommunityManLosingUncle
I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.
Ashton Sanders
CommunityPeopleSpeakDoingWant
I just want to be a better person to the community.
Lil Yachty
CommunityBetter PersonBetterPerson
For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'
Andrew Haigh
CommunityTimeMenDoingYouGay
I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.
Crystal Bowersox
CommunityPeopleFenceLookGay
I spent a lot of my time, growing up, at the Beck Center. I'd be in plays there, and I'd get there an hour or two early just so I could be there, where I felt safe and where I belonged. And that's such an important feeling to have as a young kid. The theater community, and especially the Beck Center, really embraced me and got me started.
Rory O'Malley
CommunityTimeMeGrowing UpEarly
They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
James Comey
FaithCommunityPeopleNameViolence
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'
Chaz Bono
CommunityTimeThinkLongLong Time
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.
Tina Thompson
CommunityTaxRevenueSeenBenefits
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.
Hilary Rosen
MusicCommunityProblemCreatingUse
Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.
John Ridley
CommunityResponsibilityBlackDoing
It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don't feel like you have it in you, it's in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.
Teyonah Parris
ChangePassionCommunityVisionYou
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
Judith Light
CommunityTryingGayTrappedOut
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
Allan Savory
CommunityPlantsGreenProcessSoil
We've been here so long. The history and richness runs so deep within the community. We own this. It's personal. It's very personal.
Linda Johnson Rice
CommunityHistoryDeepLongPersonal
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas
CommunitySocietyJournalismResults
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