You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Children are all foreigners.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.