Quotes About Diversity

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

The statement is that I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

When I started working, the big models were people like Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. It was a time when there were models who had real personalities and individuality.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

I like to take on a different role every time or else I make myself bored.

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.