W. Kamau Bell Quotes

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

I've not experienced racism from other players. Not once. You experience ignorance but that's not the same at all, and I'm always happy to discuss things. If that helps people learn about Islam, to learn there's nothing to fear, then great, that's all part of my role.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Tolerance is an acquired taste. It is not innate. You build tolerance.

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

Caring is beyond race. Either people care about you, or they don't.