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.
Bob MarleyThe first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
Maya AngelouPeople look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Paul AusterNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
Cristiano RonaldoThe best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert FrostMen and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.
Jordan PetersonIf you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.
Taylor SwiftSometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David ByrneI feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.
The WeekndI 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!
RihannaI think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel WashingtonI’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
Billy GrahamGays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
Joel OsteenAll fat women look the same; they all look 42.
Margaret AtwoodI don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
Bad BunnyRituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.
John LennonI 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.
Joyce MeyerIt is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao TzuIf I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?
Charles BukowskiI’m very free-spirited.
Lady GagaWe are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.
Abraham MaslowI’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
Keanu ReevesIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice WalkerWhile children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamDon’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
Lady GagaWhen 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.
Ernest HemingwayHonestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.
Stephen CurrySecretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. RowlingI love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor SwiftEven in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
Narendra ModiWe are all alike, on the inside.
Mark TwainI put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.
Kevin GatesToo often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor RooseveltI’m not a centerfold.
Frank OceanI’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
Billie EilishAll of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
Muhammad AliRelish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
Anthony HopkinsI am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.
EminemI started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.
Kurt CobainGod doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.
Joyce MeyerAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestI’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn MonroeDon’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.
Joel OsteenIndia has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainEveryone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.
Bad BunnyAs the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.
Wayne DyerGod tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.
Dolly PartonIf you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiUntil blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
Maya AngelouWe boil at different degrees.
Clint EastwoodHonestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.
Angelina JolieI want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.
Jim CarreyEvery man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.
Tom BradyYou’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. SeussThe American dream belongs to all of us.
Kamala HarrisCertainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.
Billy GrahamThere is no unique picture of reality.
Stephen HawkingThe shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung