Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Quotes

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

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.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

I'm human just like everyone.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.