Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

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

If we're constantly giving every one of our allies the woke test instead of inviting them to be more woke, we're doomed. You can be the most woke person of all time and be alone.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

We should accept diversity and pluralism and learn to live in them, and learn how to grow in them, without losing our identity and compromising ourselves

We have a lot to learn from everyone.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.