Quotes About Diversity

I want the next 16-year-old kid who looks like me to know he's not automatically the bad guy. Hopefully, that kid can look at Mustafa Ali and say, 'Hey, he's not the bad guy, and I don't have to be, either.'

I wish I watched movies like 'Hidden Figures' when I was a kid, and maybe I would've taken science classes super seriously, because I saw myself.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.

There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

Even though I present as heterosexual, I've been all over the planet sexually and proud of that and never tried to hide it.

Meeting at our fault lines is much more interesting to me than meeting at shared values. I'm not trying to sell you something. If anything, I'm trying to show you where we are. There is nothing to hide.

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the character.

Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.

I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

I try to keep each different book different from the last. So 'Sag Harbor' is very different from 'Apex Hides the Hurt;' 'The Intuitionist,' which is kind of a detective novel, is very different from 'John Henry Days.' I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

I made a choice in my career to not get hair plugs and not hide the fact that I was balding, and I've managed to play all sorts of characters who have shaved heads.

If you hide, you won't find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.

There's no sort of hierarchy at 'Corrie.' The crew get on.

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Many Asian players have seen they can play in Europe at a high level.

People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they're great at. But I like being able to show that you can do more than one thing and do it at a high level.

I had boyfriends in high school, and then I dated guys and girls, so I guess for a long time I was bisexual.

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.