I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard.

There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.

Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.

I think that when we stand in solidarity, we'll be stronger.

I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.

I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you.

It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.