Ursula Burns Quotes

What's important to me is people just being people.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

And we call ourselves the human race.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

Human beings are human beings, regardless of what makes us different.

You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.