Kamasi Washington Quotes

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

To have a meaningful life, you have to be of service …

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children: that the world isn't all about them and that, through our actions, people will really discover what kind of a person we truly are.

I believe we all have a responsibility to try to help other people in this world. To me, my ability to help and to do good for others will only increase if I'm more known and get to that really super elite level. That would be the huge benefit for me. It would put me in a position where I could just help more people.

Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

When I wake up, I think, 'What can I do to help others?' I think we all owe the world something. That's the way I am when I'm designing a product.

My mother always says that you are successful only when you are capable of helping somebody. So I feel whatever I could do I could do only with the blessings of my parents.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.