Don't ever know who you may meet or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual you know the individual the person who doesn't conform.
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all and it's really all about them.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious person for about a decade.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand I pray on the other hand I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.
I'm still a person a human being no matter what religion I am.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
All the different nations in the world despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life still have one thing in common and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
I'm not a religious person and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion but I do like having some sort of communal gathering and having some sense of peoples.
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force oppression or pressure.
The American way was for commerce personal relationships and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.
My political ideas and things like that even my religion I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world I'm just an entertainer.
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family there's lots of children seven brothers two sisters grew up together fighting with each other went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.