Samuel R. Delany Quotes

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

That's what this game is about; it's about relationships.