Quotes About Diversity

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

My husband's a man's man, and he does guy films, and there's rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.

People in communities like Granger, Indiana, are rarely heard from on cable networks. But they, too, believe it is wrong to deport friends and neighbors who do no harm and much good.

Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn't a famous bisexual equivalent - it's a lot rarer.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

I grew up with 'The Little Rascals' and always try to work a link into every one of my movies.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.

I'm the daughter of proud immigrants myself, but it's clear that successive federal governments have allowed the rate of immigration to NSW to balloon out of control.

Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men, government employees and farmers.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.