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

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

I love diversity.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

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.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

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

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

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

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.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

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.

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

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

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.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

The 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.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

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

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

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

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.

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

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.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.