I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Children are all foreigners.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

When 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.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

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.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

I 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!

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Football 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.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

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.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.