Quotes About Diversity

I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me - white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.

I listen to R&B and Hip Hop.

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

You definitely will not hear any hip hop at my show. Not that I don't think there's an art to that, but it's not for me.

As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip Hop and Black Americans have given so much to our culture and our country.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

I hoped that I would be a lead in my career; of course that was a hope of mine. But I never thought I would be so lucky to be the lead of a romcom. Simply because I don't get those opportunities, for probably many reasons, but one of would likely be because I'm Asian.

I'm not going on a crusade but I'm proud of who I am. I feel I have achieved everything I could ever possibly have hoped to achieve out of rugby and I did it being gay. I want to send a positive message to other gay people that they can do it, too.

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn't matter where I come from.

An Indian Muslim can aspire to become a Shah Rukh Khan, can aspire to become an Irfan Pathan or even the President of India. And that makes the Muslim here far more hopeful and far less in despair than in any other part of the world.

There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

Critics who complain that we don't do anything new will hopefully be happy with 'Oopiri.'

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Everyone has a different colour as an actor. And the composite of all those colours hopefully creates something that's fun to watch.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.

Hopefully, in not a too distant future, we will see a Latino president, and who knows how's that going to happen. It's just a matter of time.

To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.