Charles de Lint Quotes

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.

It aint about black or white cause we're human

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

All my skin folk are not my kin folk.

We are one species, one people. Every individual on this earth is a member of 'homo sapiens sapiens,' and the geographical variations we see among peoples are simply biological nuances on the basic theme.

Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors … very similar in their manners and customs.

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green.

The New Mainstream, is the future strength of the American economic engine. I believe we need to stop thinking and acting as minorities, as none of the numbers support that concept anymore. We should even shun the term “People of Color,” which feels a little too much like “Colored People” reversed, to me. Besides I would imagine if we used the term “People Without Color,” that wouldn’t set well with those that it would be a descriptor of. We are all Americans (every color race and creed) all with unique cultural contributions that are part of the greater fabric of this country.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.

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.

People on YouTube say they don't think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don't think they should mix races. It's gonna always be that, but you can only pray that music can bring everybody together as one.

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.