For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.

Art is just so much. It binds cultures together,