Elif Safak Quotes

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

We will have differences. Even in our own country we do not see everything alike. If we did, we would all want the same wife—and that would be a problem, wouldn't it!

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.

I am different. Let this not upset 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.

Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways of seeing that. There's an opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique. And then there's an opportunity to go to war about it and to say that that person is different from me and I don't like you, so let's battle.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

People don't really think other people are 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.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

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

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Mama showed me that I didn't have to change just because someone else saw things differently. She showed me that having differences is normal and that I didn't have to be afraid of the differences in all of us.

For me, inclusivity is a very important subject because it's a diverse world and every person is different and unique.

The NFL is made up of 1,800 players, guys from different religious backgrounds, different upbringings. I love Peyton Manning. But I don't want 1,800 Peyton Mannings in the NFL.