{"quotes":[{"text":"There are few things more powerful than people united. What they unite over is not what matters. ... The most important aspect is remembering our existing connection, and, through that, allowing ourselves to feel at peace.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["coming-together","connection","love","peace","people","people-united","unity"],"id":5013,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, we are separated from God, from each other. All we want, all we yearn for is to connect.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","birth","coming-together","community","connect","family","friends","god","harmony","insecure","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lost","love","lover","one-love","one-world","oneness","relate","reunion","separated","separation","together","togetherness","understand","union","unity","unity-poems","vulnerable"],"id":32336,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The gangs filled a void in society, and the void was the absence of family life. The gang became a family. For some of those guys in the gang that was the only family they knew, because when their mothers had them they were too busy having children for other men. Some of them never knew their daddies. Their daddies never look back after they got their mothers pregnant, and those guys just grew up and they couldn’t relate to nobody. \tWhen they had their problems, who could they have talked to? Nobody would listen, so they gravitated together and form a gang. George Mackey, the former representative for the historic Fox Hill community in The Bahamas.","author":"Drexel Deal","tags":["absentee-fathers","at-risk-communities","at-risk-youth","broken-homes","coming-together","dead-beat-dads","emptiness","empty-nest","family","family-life","fatherhood","fatherless-homes","gang-family","gang-formation","gang-intervention","gang-life","gang-members","gang-prevention","gangs","gangsters","government","hurting-children","hurting-people","member-of-parliament","missing-in-action","policy-makers","politicians","representative","sense-of-belonging","single-mothers","social-ills","street-life","void-within","youth-club","youth-groups","youth-ministry","youth-outreach","youth-problems","youth-programs"],"id":84468,"author_id":"Drexel+Deal"},{"text":"We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["camaraderie","coming-together","friend","friends","friendship","friendship-and-love","friendship-true-and-loyal","friendships","group-of-friends","grown","high-school","loyalty","team","teammates","teams","teamwork","teen","teenagers"],"id":234139,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"},{"text":"I was coming together...Limb by limb, after being brokenfor an infinity.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["broken","coming-together","heal","healing","infinity","pieces","poetry","poetry"],"id":256686,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}