Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.

I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Never you mind about the country, or about the state, or the city, or about the ward. You take care of your precinct.

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

Family is hugely important to me, because like I said, it takes a village to raise a child. That's my theme. That's how I really feel about life.

I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.

That's the key thing I learned from making 'The East': It doesn't matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there's a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit.

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

There were so many people who were instrumental in helping me get better. They say it takes a village, and the tennis community has been my village. That's why I've always felt that I have a responsibility to give back.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.