I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.
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Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
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