Margaret Stohl Quotes

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

People are longing for tribe and community.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

I would love to be part of a community.

Being part of a team that belongs to everyone makes me feel good and at peace with myself.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Things that bind a community together are the things that nobody has to talk about because everyone agrees about them.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

I love my neighborhood: There are Russian families, the artistic community, the gay community, and industry professionals - all ethnicities and ages are represented. That's the kind of neighborhood that I grew up in.