Tamlyn Tomita Quotes

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

The idea of service leads to community.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

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

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

It's cool to be able to use comedy as a way to make people feel like they're a part of a bigger collective rather than as a way to divide.

We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

The thing we need most is each other.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

We all need each other.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

No dream is ever chased alone.

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

We can be more inclusive.

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.