It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that our worth is not defined by physical attributes or gender.
John Lennon's quote promotes the idea of equality and the importance of character over superficial traits. It calls for a focus on who we are as individuals, rather than how we are perceived based on our appearance or gender, advocating for acceptance and understanding among all people.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one might quote John Lennon to highlight the importance of valuing individuals for who they are, beyond physical appearances.
When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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