Bootsy Collins Quotes

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

We're all people at the end of the day.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

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

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

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.

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

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as the Muslim - when you see me as Adeel Alam and not just the character on TV - when you see past all of that, we are all the same, and we are all just one.

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

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

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

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

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

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha - despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear - and recognize what unites us as human beings.

The bottom line is people are people, and the sooner we realise that, the better off things are going to be.

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

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

I love all people, and that's what I focus on.

We're all people, no matter what colour.

If we can fathom stripping away sexual orientation, skin color, sex, we're all the exact same: We just want connection. We just want love.