Quotes about Community

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

If I deal with my block and you deal with your block, we'll have two good blocks.

The welfare of the people is the highest law

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

A good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There's nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.