Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

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.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

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.

I think people are universal.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

We are all alike, on the inside.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

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.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

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.

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.

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.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?