My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it. – Soledad O’Brien
It’s not the ’90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days. – Tila Tequila
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it. – William Julius Wilson
CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large. – Simon Mainwaring
I think if I’m controversial it’s not because I set out to be. It’s because I’ve never felt comfortable being part of someone else’s mainstream community. – Tony Judt
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do. – Shane Claiborne
Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology. – Sarah Jessica Parker
Certainly, the emergence of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the Taylor family has been one of the great things that has happened in St. Louis. We are no longer headquarters for McDonnell Douglas, although the McDonnell family is still very much involved in our community. – William Henry Danforth
It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we’re very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood. – Soledad O’Brien
As I get older and more tuned in to a community or an area, I see myself getting more involved. Not that I see myself running for office, but more involved in local issues. – Steven Ford
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can’t think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. – Tavis Smiley
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges. – Thomas Perez
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. – Ted Cruz
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world’s violence. – Stanley Hauerwas
I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do ‘Jesus Christ Super Star’ in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films. – Tatiana Maslany
We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so. – William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance. – Sister Souljah
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We’ve seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars. – Tina Thompson
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. – Walter Jon Williams
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn’t really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn’t want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn’t right. – Scott Stapp
Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we’re seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent. – Vincent Nichols
I grew up in an artists’ community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art. – Vin Diesel
Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I’ll tell you; it’s a majority among them. – Tom Tancredo
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. – Stephanie Tubbs Jones
I think that’s one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit – people come for the news, and stay for the community. – Yishan Wong
Mr. Obama’s call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses. – Tzipi Livni
In an online community, there’s this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that’s a good website that’s visited a lot, but there’s no real gameplay there. – Will Wright
I’m a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community. – Thomas Sadoski