Quotes About Diversity

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play.

The groups I liked, you really looked forward to their albums and you rushed to get them the first day, because you knew it was going to be different than what they did before. The records told you what that group was into at that time.

We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

In America, aren't we all supposed to see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity? Are all these lines drawn to set us apart and lock us into groups?

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

By the time my children are born, I know it's possible that they can grow up in a world where they don't understand that there were ever any dividers between people and why we have the issues we do today. That's my goal in this life.

Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can't dress no grown man.