Quotes About Empathy

People don't accredit Killer Mike and El-P with having the humanity that we do. They don't understand that the darkness and the anger that we rap about comes from a place of love, care, and concern.

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the struggle. It's not necessarily what we're going through ourselves.

When the actor you're developing a rapport with is directing, you feel much more camaraderie about scenes, and you can relate in a much tighter way.

I had grown up seeing people in school where I felt like I needed to keep them at arm's length, or on the picket line, where there was a tonne of hostility and no time to build rapport with people.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

I love people, which might be a little rare for artists. I don't know if a lot of artists like people, but I do. I love love.

As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.

Chris had the unique and rare opportunity to be shown during his lifetime how many friends he has and how much they care.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

Being present with a person and just seeing them for who they are is something that is so rarely given to us, and I try to do that with everyone I meet.

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.