Community Quotes

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.