James Weldon Johnson Quotes

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.

There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are the only creature that tells stories, and sometimes those are true stories and sometimes those are made up stories. Then there are the larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which are things like nation and family and clan and so on. Those stories are considered to be treated reverentially. They need to be part of the way in which we conduct the discourse of our lives and to prevent people from doing something very damaging to human nature.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.