Quotes About Diversity

Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

I've got a lot of respect for Brazil.

Nobody is totally white in Brazil.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

My family is Brazilian and I feel Brazilian, even though I have never lived there. I was born and raised in Belgium so I also feel Belgian. I feel the blood of a Brazilian, but I understand both ways.

We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band.

Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.

I don't want to be 'de-ethnicised.' I hate it when people say, 'Oh I don't even think of you as a woman,' or, 'I don't even think of you as a black woman.' Well what do you think of me as then? A loaf of bread?

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.

Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts.

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

I think art breaks down otherness.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.