Artur Davis Quotes

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

We see you. We stand with you.

My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative on every level of government.

When you're trying to inspire individuals across the country, you have to have a reflection that people can see themselves in.

I actually believe that Florida and its rich diversity are going to be looking for a governor who's going to bring us together, not divide us. Not misogynist, not racist, not bigots.

As mayor, I used to always feel the important thing is that people respect me, not love me - but it is really much nicer when they love you, too. I'm going to try to keep it that way.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.