Quotes About Understanding

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

You can't manage one size fits all; you've just got to know your group and know what ticks players' boxes.

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.

Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that I worked with - Jon Favreau and David Axelrod and others - really understood that this was something that I felt I held had to do.

When you love someone, or when someone is special to you, there are situations where little white lies are necessary.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America's least-understood communities are those poor, hyper-segregated places we once called ghettos. These neighborhoods are not far away, but they might as well be on the moon.

I used to think I saw life in blacks or whites, turns out I was more grey. It is extremely liberating to care for people even if they are flawed, you needn't eschew the whole person for a few not so shiny, sparkly parts.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.