Quotes About Diversity

I recently started my own NP17 Academy within Liverpool Community College, which gives 16-19-year-old girls an opportunity to embark on a sports career, whether it be as a coach, player, physio, or nutritionist.

Until recently, Hollywood offered only a handful of roles to actors of color. The majority of my opportunities have fallen into two categories: Scary Black and Funny Black.

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on those parts of my identity. I've always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.

I think Chennaiites are the best because the city has a receptive audience.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division.

I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special.

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving.

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

I'm going to say yes, I reckon we'll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.

Unfortunately, we have very few female composers in our country, but Sneha Khanwalkar, Alokananda Dasgupta, and Jasleen Royal are forces to reckon with.

We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done.

Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.

It is important for big names such as Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri to get on board and recognise that women do actually understand the game and they can play as well.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Comedy is important, and I do not want to end up being recognised for just one genre.

I totally support civil partnerships and that same-sex relationships are recognised in law. But marriage, to me, is between a man and a woman.