Jesse Owens Quotes

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

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.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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.

Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

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

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

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

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

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.