# Quote — R. Eric Thomas, Here for It: A Read with Jenna Pick

> They were expanding the same amount of energy not to put on a show. As if to say, "This is your home and you're welcome here as you are." I think it's important to note that that takes work: family doesn't just happen; welcome isn't a neutral state. We have to tend to these things.

- Author: [R. Eric Thomas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-eric-thomas.md)
- Book: [Here for It: A Read with Jenna Pick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-eric-thomas/here-for-it-a-read-with-jenna-pick.md)
- Page: 188
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._Eric_Thomas#Here_For_It:_Or,_How_to_Save_Your_Soul_in_America_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-eric-thomas/here-for-it-a-read-with-jenna-pick/they-were-expanding

## More from this book

> If our religions aren't about the business of achieving justice in our time, in this world, for everyone, what are they doing?

p. 207 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-eric-thomas/here-for-it-a-read-with-jenna-pick/if-our-religions.md)