Ernest Gaines Quotes

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

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.

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

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

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

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

I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.

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

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

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.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

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.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

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.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.