Quotes About Diversity

I believe in secular politics.

Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

It's time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.

I owe my career in the South to Tamil films.

There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it to them.' But the truth is, you don't know how people are going to respond. And many people don't even have the language to talk about what their trans experience is, or what it could be.

The world's music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in with all of that.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They're the new immigrants, the new Greeks - what my people did. The next generation of these people will probably be college graduates. That's how it works, right there in front of your eyes.

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

I've got an idea; how about you don't blame all gun owners for the actions of a few?

When you find new genres of music, you take ownership of them.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.

The Rooney Rule is intended to give minorities an opportunity to sit down in front of ownership, but I think what it's turned into is an instance where guys are just checking the box. That's been the case. I've been on some interviews in the past where I've had that feeling.

In high school, I listened to Lady Gaga and I was really obsessed with just being who you are and owning that experience - she was a really big inspiration in that aspect to me and my friends, who were young and growing up, and making our way through the city and the world.

My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

I'm extraordinarily lucky to have so many friends across such a diverse group of people. One day I'll be at Oxford, the next at some complete idiot's lunch.