Andre Gide Quotes

Art and culture are the greatest weapons against hate agendas, entrenched ideologies, and power structures that harbor and promote the business of divisiveness.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Somebody had to shock the world and let people know how great we could be if we only put our biases aside.

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

My music is about love, and I don't discriminate against any type of person.

Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The black church will accept anybody.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

I love all people; I hate no one.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.