Quotes About Diversity

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to racism, yet far less confident in talking to each other as human beings with similar hopes, problems and aspirations.

The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.