Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

We're all different, and we have to accept and tolerate each other's characteristics.

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

Different is good. Different is great!

Accept others for their differences, what makes them different. That's what makes the world the world.

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.

People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great.

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.

We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

I like it that we are not the same.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.

At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

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.