Audre Lorde Quotes

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Diversity means understanding.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I celebrate diversity. It's what makes us great.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Education, Love & Acceptance are the First Steps to Breaking Down Barriers

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

I'm hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.

We should be talking about celebrating our differences, understanding that those differences make us richer and stronger.

We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.

I truly believe diversity is beauty.

We're all different, and we have to accept and tolerate each other's characteristics.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

We've got to learn how to not look at creed or color. Look at how beautiful a bouquet of roses looks like - different color roses, all look beautiful. We have to learn how to let our beauty of the color of our roses shine to the world.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.