I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

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

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

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 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.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

In 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.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

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.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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

We 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.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

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.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

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

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

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

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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