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Quotes About Diversity

Sometimes we need to take some time to reflect. Sometimes we need to do something different. Sometimes we need to do something not because others are doing it so we want to do the same, but because it is different.
~ Carlos Carvalhal
I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.
~ Cobi Jones
All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.
~ Janet Jackson
I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.
~ Justin Theroux
I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.
~ Cobi Jones
42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
~ Gail Kelly
I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
~ Malorie Blackman
In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot.
~ David Harewood
It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't.
~ Mira Nair
In a nation growing increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that the organizations tasked with keeping us informed reflect the same diversity.
~ Marcia Fudge
We have to reflect the world that we live in.
~ Anna Wintour
I have always acted in films where women have an equal, if not bigger, role than mine. Don't the kind of films you do reflect your personality?
~ R. Madhavan
I wrote 'Redefining Realness' because not enough of our stories are being told, and I believe we need stories that reflect us so we don't feel so isolated in our apparent 'difference.'
~ Janet Mock
What does it serve any studio to not reflect the lives of people who are giving you money, who are crying out to you, 'Hey, please tell our stories.'
~ Brian Tyree Henry
White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show - don't get caught up in that.' And I was like, 'No.' For such an intimate show about the details of a culture? You can't fake that. The room needs to reflect the makeup of the show.
~ Tanya Saracho
I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
~ Jenny Han
Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.
~ Sandi Toksvig
I will say that equity overall is an important issue and one we are constantly looking at. In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.
~ Gabrielle Carteris
My school is about 25 percent black, but the way we're covered doesn't reflect that.
~ David Hogg
We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character's sexual preference.
~ Nina Jacobson
I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests.
~ Ashly Burch
I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.
~ Bill Duke
London has a 50 per cent female population so we want to aim long term to have 50 per cent female officers. It's good for police to reflect the public that we serve.
~ Cressida Dick
I want 'Flash' to reflect the world we live in.
~ Rick Famuyiwa