Quotes About Diversity

I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.

I do listen to more jazz and gospel than anything else, but my ears are still very much open and listening to stuff that comes out. And a lot of times my kids turn me on to stuff.

I love gospel music, I love gangsta music.

Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'

We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, 'That sounds like Rakim.'

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

I actually believe that Florida and its rich diversity are going to be looking for a governor who's going to bring us together, not divide us. Not misogynist, not racist, not bigots.

When I say I'm going to be a governor for all Kentuckians, I mean it.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!

I love women. I grab every inspiration I can from women and for me it's a bit of fun.

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.

I like Solange, old pictures of Naomi Campbell, Grace Jones. I love Rihanna.

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.

Every day, I think, by the grace of God, I'm here, blessed to be a U.S. citizen, but I could have just as easily been a Dreamer too.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

In seventh grade, I met my best friend Wendi, who is a trans woman.

When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.