Mj Rodriguez Quotes

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.

I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you.

Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting.

I think a sense of family, of commitment to family, and of helping each other and standing by each other, are essential. I pity anyone who doesn't grow up with that.

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

It's important to come out to yourself first and be comfortable with it. After that, I feel it's important to surround yourself with a group of friends who support you and love you for who you are.

Find community.

I've a great group of people, a great family behind me all the way, all the time. You cannot underestimate that.