Quotes About Diversity

There's a time and a place when it needs to be all about hockey. I don't think that's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How you choose to spend that time when it's not all about hockey is completely up to you.

Why do I have to just focus on hockey? Why can't I help people? Why can't I have fun with my fans?

I played every sport but hockey.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

In hockey, you get to meet a lot of different people and become friends with them. It is definitely a special sport. I love that part of it.

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.

Airbnb is different from most brands. We're a community of individuals, and yet there's a consistency holding us together through the values we share. We have a common belief in belonging, but everyone's expression of it will naturally always be a little different.

Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?

It is astounding how evolved and progressed India has become. It is holding on to its extraordinary rich culture and becoming global and Western at the same time.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.

During my campaign for Public Advocate, and Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign for mayor, we committed to making Eid school holidays a reality.

When I was with PSV Eindhoven in Holland, some people still thought Asian players weren't good enough to play in Europe. It's always good to rise to the challenge and prove them wrong. When I first came to United, I had to prove my ability again.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

I don't own Hollywood.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

There are no Asian leading men in Hollywood. There's not an Asian Ryan Gosling or an Asian Brad Pitt.

I was born there and I grew up in East L.A., not Hollywood.

Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.