All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

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.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Whether 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.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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.

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 think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I love diversity.

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

I don’t just listen to rap.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I’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.‘

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

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

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.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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.

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

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.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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.

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

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

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

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

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

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

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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!

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.