No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

All movements go too far.

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

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

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.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

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

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.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

We are all alike, on the inside.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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 there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

I’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.

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.‘

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I was not an activist.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

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.

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.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Racism is real in this country.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.