Urban Community Quotes

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

It's the people that I see every day in Baltimore that motivate me.

I am very passionate, and I grew up in an incredibly beautiful urban community - the city of Detroit - born and raised.

The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take that second look, never take that second thought.

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

What is the city but the people?

Compton is my city.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.

I always think there's this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, 'We're sticking this out. It's the hardest place to live, but it's the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.'

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

When I go home to Iowa, people assume I live in this very big anonymous place where no one knows each other or wants to. Truth is, I know my neighbors better in Brooklyn than I ever did in Iowa.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.