Ruth Negga Quotes

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Everybody's funny if you love them.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

As I always say, you don't have to love me, but you have to respect that I'm here.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.