I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.