Quotes About Diversity

A girl, like you—' 'Like me? There are no girls like me.' I

If I seemed strange, and conscious of myself, what was that to her? We were all strange, there.

It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.

I have called each of My children to a different path, distinctly designed for that one. Do not let anyone convince you that his path is the only right way. And be careful not to extol your path as superior to another's way. What I require of you is to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Me—wherever I lead.

I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.

She] had occasionally glimpsed a series of interchangeable well-groomed blondes accompanying him to work events, then Grace had rocked up with her funny-coloured hair and her funny-coloured tights, and Vaughn had been smitten. Well, as smitten as Vaughn could be.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be glad to read him.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

As though to be Jewish weren't trouble enough, the poor woman was German, too.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

If it is art, it is not for all. If it is for all, it is not art.

When a male-based culture is re-formed into a male-and-female-based culture, it presents a truer picture of the character of God, who created all people as his image bearers. When the voices of women become customary, common, expected, and accepted, the church becomes more inviting, more inclusive, more empathetic, more compassionate, safer, and more secure—for everyone. We pray for that day. [1] Luke 4:18-19, NRSV, italics added. [

Put differently, we've made the church into the American dream for our own ethnic group with the same set of convictions about next to everything. No one else feels welcome. What Jesus and the apostles taught was that you were welcomed because the church welcomed all to the table.

The reality is that each of our churches has created a Christian culture and Christian life for likes and sames and similiarities and identicals. Instead of powering God's grand social experiment, we've cut up God's plan into segregated groups, with the incredibly aggravating and God-dishonoring result that most of us are invisible to one another.

The church God wants is one brimming with difference,

This otherness problem is what the gospel "fixes," and the story of the Bible is the story of God's people struggling with otherness and searching for oneness.

The difference between Christianity and Islam is that some people think a guy walked on water and other people think a horse can fly.

Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo