Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

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.

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

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

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!

We are all alike, on the inside.

Racism is real in this country.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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

One day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

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

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

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.

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

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

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

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

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!

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

I love diversity.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

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.

I don’t just listen to rap.