Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.
Marilyn MonroeIndia has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainIf I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?
Charles BukowskiIt’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya AngelouI just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
Joyce MeyerWe are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Stephen HawkingIs it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George EliotWhy are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia WoolfMen blaspheme what they do not know.
Blaise PascalAll religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EpictetusWhen the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander HamiltonThe 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.
Anthony BourdainNo matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhen you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.
Kevin HartAll of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.
Michelle ObamaMen were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John RuskinNaturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.
Alice MunroTaylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The WeekndI love diversity.
Kevin HartChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
Pope FrancisDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleWe need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.
Bad BunnyI loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
Clint EastwoodSome men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott FitzgeraldBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeSEALs 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.
Jocko WillinkI 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.
Beyonce KnowlesI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamDiscrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Bill GatesThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas SowellWe are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. BushThe glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.
Herbert HooverBarack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.
Michelle ObamaAll women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.
Angelina JolieMen hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
VoltaireThere are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.
Charles BukowskiI’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
David ByrneMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian EnoI’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
Michelle ObamaAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestWhen 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 LagerfeldI think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel WashingtonLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia WoolfLove is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. MenckenWhen you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
George CarlinI’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
Billy GrahamI think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.
Angelina JolieThe diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
Narendra ModiAristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand RussellWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. RooseveltWhether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
Joel OsteenMen are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George OrwellMen willingly believe what they wish.
Julius CaesarThere was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William ShakespeareI’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘
Maya AngelouSometimes, 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.
Ariana GrandeIn my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice WalkerAn economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam