I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

We 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.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

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.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Your friend is your needs answered.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

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.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.