Quotes About Understanding

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.

It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.

We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.

When I told my father about Samantha, he simply laughed and said that he is happy and that he already knew about our love story.

We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

I let my people know that I'd love to work with Ryan Coogler one day because I thought he's just one of those truly auteur directors of our time. And I was just like, 'I want to work with a guy like that.' I think he has such a great understanding and distinct voice of his own.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

Everyone's opinions have to be respected. The coach has his, we have ours, the media have theirs.

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.