All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
What makes you different is what makes you beautiful.
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
You can’t be what you can’t see.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
The American dream belongs to all of us.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
Society is unity in diversity.
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.