" It would seem that God created an “otherness” so that we could find our way in mutuality to kinship. Margins manufactured by God, perhaps, so that we’d dedicate our lives to their erasure. We are charged not with obliterating our diversity and difference but instead with heightening our connection to each other. As it says in the Qur’an: “I create diverse tribes, so that you might come to know each other.” And, to come running. "

― Gregory Boyle , Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship