Quotes About Diversity

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.

If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre.

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.

And part of being American is respecting all people's right to be whatever they want to be and at the same time respecting your own right to bitch about it, as long as you're educated and can reason your way through your bitching.

Maybe I can find a place here, even with being different. «Look around,» Pixit said. «You already have one.»

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion. The way I see it, there's no wrong way to be a woman.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.