Delilah Quotes

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

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

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

I'm human just like everyone.

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.