Mustafa Ali Quotes

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

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

We're all human at the end of the day. That's why I look at every person I encounter the same way.

If we can fathom stripping away sexual orientation, skin color, sex, we're all the exact same: We just want connection. We just want love.

I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation, or anything which may separate us on the surface.

We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences.

We're all people at the end of the day.

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 have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

I'm a human being just like everybody else.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

I'm no different than you.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.