I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

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

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I hate the idea of genres.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

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.

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.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.

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

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

We sold ‚Seinfeld‘ all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Me 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.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

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