Quotes About Diversity

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.

When faced with exceptional circumstances, people react differently.

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

It was tough: I had to kiss a man, and I got a mixed reaction from the black community. But I have to be ready to play any role, or I can't call myself an actor.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

It's important as an actor to understand, whatever you do, you're going to have reactions from all kinds of different people, and be OK with that.

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

I read in all forms: paper, computer, phone, audio.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.