Quotes About Diversity

The thing about 'Doctor Who' is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.

'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.

I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.

In life, you should be allowed to express yourself. People are happier like this.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

My audience has lots of people between 20 and 35, but there are always a few 60-year-olds, and it makes me happier than if everyone was 22.

I'm an artiste... I dance, I act, and I do a lot of things that's got to do with arts, and that's my space. I feel happiest in that space.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

I've had lots of opportunities to do things I'm passionate about and the things I care about and I feel that I can live in a world that doesn't really accept people that are different happily.

I would happily do any Malayalam or Bengali film, if the script is good and I get a good challenge as an actor.

It's hard to be what you can't see.

All over the country, thousands of schools and teachers are working incredibly hard, day in day out, to eliminate homophobia, and we are committed to helping them.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.

They've always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another - usually country spilling over into the old adult-contemporary charts.

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.