Wynton Marsalis Quotes

In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

The more I am French, the more I feel a part of humanity.

I'm a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.

Eurovision is this bubble of inclusivity and respect, and it's so beautiful, if only the whole world would be in this bubble. It is a family that will never forget about you.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

A [minority or ethnic] group is best defined as a dynamic whole based on inter-dependence rather than on similarity.

In today's restless world, America needs to identify with the quest for universal human dignity, a dignity that embodies both freedom and democracy but also implies respect for cultural diversity.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

Our strength lies in the free development of national cultures. True internationalism is possible only if one has a profound respect for the dignity, honor, culture and history of each people.

All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you're a terrorist; if you're an American, you might be a militarist. Those kind of prisms that we see each other through are really stultifying, and they don't often show the complexity and the incredible warmth and encompassing of the world.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.