There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

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.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

I give opinions, not advice.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I am not a televangelist.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

History should be written as philosophy.

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.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

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.

I hate the idea of genres.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

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

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

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

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

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.

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.

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

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

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.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

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

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.