Hozier Quotes

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

The core of Animal House was about prejudice, about equality, and about inclusion/exclusion. It was about a group of people who were together and anything went. Anybody who wanted in could get it in. Then there was that other group that nobody could get in, unless they were white, and just alike. It was very representative of the culture in the '60s, '50s, and '40s in America.

There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

All labels are offensive in some way.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.

'Those people' is a bad word.

Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I got a letter said, "I have been shot three times throught the heart. I hope I see your second act." But this white man who wants to stay white, and to think for the Negro, he is not only destroying the Negro, he is destroying himself, because a house divided against itself cannot stand and that same thing applies to America.