Leonard Jeffries Quotes

Americans are the pick of the more adventurous and people of all races.

I'm human. As human as any Indian. And every Pakistani is as human as every Indian.

We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

I think people are universal.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

The liberals of the world are brothers, everywhere

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

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

All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.

I think our big tent is our greatest strength.