With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham MaslowBuilding capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. PattonI’m a free spirit.
Mr. TI don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark TwainHere in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.
Michelle ObamaI’m a really particular person. I want it my way.
Billie EilishIt were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark TwainNothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis BaconEvery nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhen I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl LagerfeldWhen we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David ByrneI say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
EminemWhen I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
RihannaThis soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia WoolfI’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.
Nipsey HussleI know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!
RihannaThink for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
VoltaireFootball fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Hunter S. ThompsonIn the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Barack ObamaI do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey NewtonI love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.
Virat KohliI feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
Jackie ChanYou lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
J. K. RowlingPeople who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
Wayne DyerThe quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.
Kevin HartEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinI didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.
Dolly PartonThese things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton SennaYou should never give up your inner self.
Clint EastwoodMe only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
Bob MarleyEveryone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.
Tom BradyAll I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob DylanHating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Muhammad AliSome days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.
Taylor SwiftNo intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
Muhammad AliI’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
Lady GagaThe fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya AngelouI’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
David GogginsWhat I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
Marilyn MonroeI’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.
Joel OsteenI don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.
Taylor SwiftPeople make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.
Dolly PartonPersonality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe 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.
Barack ObamaI’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.
Angelina JolieCreating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
Thomas SowellWhen you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
Brene BrownWe have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt DisneyI do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
Dolly PartonI was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.
EminemEverything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Wayne DyerI think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.
Ariana GrandeI just want to be myself.
Jim CarreyDon’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.
Joel OsteenHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus AureliusThe human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. TrumanI’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
Billie EilishBeing seventy is not a sin.
Golda MeirI have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.
Jerry Seinfeld