Quotes About Diversity

Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.

I live in Brooklyn.

You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.

Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!

I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.

America to me is where I grew up: in Brooklyn, around other black and Latino people who helped and loved each other. I just want to show people that America doesn't have to be this 'I'm in the NRA, blah blah blah' type of place.

I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

It's time for a brother to be Bond.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both.

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

Growing up, I'd watch 'The Cosby Show' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air;' I'd look at the little brown girls and be inspired by them.

I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it's just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

I love that brown people are being more and more represented on screen.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.