Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

I try and see people for who they are, not who they're married to.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Friends accept you the way you are.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

All I want kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are.

In today's world, where everybody is so anticipating the next great thing and everyone is so ready to shut the door on people, I don't really care what the world says.

My mom just always taught me to let people live, let people be who they are without restrictions, without limitations.

You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.