Ashleigh Murray Quotes

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I'm recognized, let me put it that way.

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.