Quotes About Empathy

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.

I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

When fans say 'Bala,' that's cultural awareness to me. I hope I've helped open up their world a little.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.

I think it's awesome when you meet someone that can kind of just get you 110 percent, and no matter how long that lasts, you kind of just take it for what it is and embrace it.

It's an awful world out there. You've got to make people happy.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

When I was young, my dad had skin cancer, which was awful.

I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.

Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

I don't know, I'm just a weird person like that, I'm kind of sensitive and I feel bad for people that hurt other people 'cause it's just awful.

Hate is awful.

I know I've said, 'Do you know what I mean?' an awful lot, and every time I've said it, I've cringed inside.

DACA, to me personally, and the DREAM Act are very personal and mean an awful lot.

I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary.

My favorite player I ever played was Reggie White. He played so ferociously. What I loved about playing against him was the millisecond you went down, he became your friend and would ask, 'How's your family?' In a way that could feel weird and awkward.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like.

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them.