Marian Anderson Quotes

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

Though black your skins as shades of night, Your hearts are pure, your souls are white.

Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

I want to create resolution and inclusion, so I created Black Santa because his eyes see no color.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.

I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.

That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.

The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

I have a love factor with the minorities.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.