I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.

The crowd is suburban, man.

I loved growing up in Portland because I’m not from L.A. or New York or Chicago or some cool city… It was a very regular suburban life.

If kids have the opportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want their friends to be. All children should have that choice. We, as adults, shouldn’t make those choices for children. That’s how racism starts.

The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios … We were all in it together.

You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places like that gave you hope when there wasn’t much hope.

People can’t live without others.

I’ll beat you and become a full-fledged member of the Sohma Clan.

My happiness comes from the kindness of those around me.

Be among good people. They make it easier for you to keep your head up when you’re experiencing tough times of your own.

It is a lot easier to keep your head up when you are going through a tough time if you don’t go it alone. So reach out. Talk to someone you love.

I think it’s important to surround yourself with positive people who uplift you.

The funerals without families,
Weddings in waiting,
The births in isolation.
Let no one again
Have to begin, love, or end, alone.

For me, it’s always the people around me who give me the strength to go on.

We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown’s father felt that way.

Start your day by asking God to help you to be a blessing to somebody and through somebody. Then, expect Him to do really big things for you. Each and every day have an attitude of expectancy with an Ephesians 3:20 mindset.

I believe that music has the power to bring people together.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

We were all dedicated to NASA.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others

I’m not going anywhere. I live here!

“So,” said Sarah, “those are your readers?”
“That’s most of them, I think.”
“Don’t any intelligent people read you?”
“I hope so.”

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

Keep your head up and try not to drown, because there are people around you who cares and depends on you. If they are not giving up on you then why are you?

Truly, God’s plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It’s about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.

Then there are those of us that being a truck driver is what we do. A truck is a tool just like a crescent wrench, a tool doing a job.

Both men and women drive commercial trucks. About one in twenty truckers in the United States is a woman.

Looks like this is goodbye. Please…let Tohru have a happy life. Please let her be loved by many people. Even if she gets lost, even if she makes mistakes, in the end, let her have a life she can be proud of. The kind of life that’ll make people say, “You did your best.” Joyous times, sad times…the cycle repeating itself, again and again. That’s how I want her to grow older.

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don’t hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

The best thing about being out here is meeting other drivers who are traveling the same roads as me every day.

It’s a trucks thing. You wouldn’t understand.

We drive trucks.

Truck drivers come together.

I am a member of the truck drivers club.

Truck drivers for life!

Who else is in love with these trucks?

Love trucks? You’ll love us!

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.

A barbershop is more than just a barbershop. When you walk through that door, you’re walking into the center of our community.

It’s a barber thing… You wouldn’t understand.

Can’t help but notice how much they stick together, too. I mean, when you see Mexicans in the States you think, ‘Oh, there’s a group of Mexicans doin’ Mexican things together,’ but here you see that it’s not just because they talk the same language, and are all Catholic. Family means a lot to these people. Relationships, husbands, wives, parents, all that shit.

Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did; often were blood related and moved from place to place in clans strengthened by civic and ecclesiastical covenants.

Owning a Jeep is like being a Mafia.

People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

If you are a Jeeper, you are a keeper.

It’s a crazy world out there and us Jeep people gotta stuck together.

Jeep people are the best sort of people.

It’s a Jeep thing, you wouldn’t understand.

It is OK if you don’t like Jeep, we are not friends.