I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere. . . Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep. . . music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.
Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.
I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.
His thumb went back and forth over the satin, as if he were rubbing her hip as he had when they'd been together, and he moved his leg over so that it was on top of the skirting. It wasn't the same, though. There was no body underneath, and the fabric smelled like lemons, not her skin. And he was, after all, alone in this room that was not theirs. "God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day.
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.
On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.