Community Tie Quotes

People always tell me that they grew up with me - like I'm their brother or uncle or some other family member. That keeps me going.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move.

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.

I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.

I represent Chicago.

If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.

Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.