Quotes About Diversity

There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

A lot of the guys that work for Warners and make these big films there all come from the same film school. Like Michael Bay, Zack Snyder, Tarsem Singh - they all went to Art Center in the College of Design. And there's a certain expectation when these guys graduate.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

I'm kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us... But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I'm glad that we have them.

The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.

I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.

My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.

I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.

The gospel is the power of God for salvation for all who believe, not just old, black grandmothers or not just old, white Republican guys.

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

My grandmother probably never thought she would see a day where, you know, a young black woman would be seen as a leader, which is incredible.

My grandparents have taught me that since I was younger: just to be involved in a whole bunch of different things so you don't get burnt out, and you know what you like to do and what you don't like to do.

All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

The right to love is granted to anyone.

As an actor, you want to do different things. You don't want to do same kind of stuff. I like the characters I play to have a graph.

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.