Quotes About Diversity

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

People would be amazed that I've grown up in Bombay and not Banaras.

Bombay is different to Liverpool, or anywhere, really.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.

First black Bond - that's my aim! That's the one!

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.

I don't have a racist bone in my body.

I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

Anytime I'm like, 'Ho-hum,' trying to go about my business like anyone else, I'll have a father or someone come up to me and say, 'You know, my daughter never realized she could be in the booth for sports, and now that's what she wants to do.'

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

Basketball Without Borders is very important.

There are no borders in poetry and language.

I really believe there are no borders for science.

Movies don't have borders.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

Basketball Without Borders gave me an edge.