Quotes About Diversity

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.

Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,' and they would all enjoy it for completely different reasons. I think that's part of the magic of the show.

There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I went through the Sundance program, it was half women and half men.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

Sundance is like a genre.

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

I've done 'Fox News Sunday' twice now. I'm happy to go on a range of shows.

Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning.

My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

I have danced, sung, been a part of a reality show, and the outcome is that I am a part of 'Batla House' and 'Bharat,' which is a milestone.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

I have sung in over 20 different languages and enjoyed it. I have even sung in foreign languages like Spanish and Russian.

I have sung all kinds of songs - be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.

I love and respect all languages of India. I have sung songs in different languages.

Bollywood is just one of the industries I am working in. I have sung in other languages and for ad jingles too.

I have sung 14,000 songs in 22 languages.

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

From Amitabh Bachchan to Ranveer Singh, I have sung for different generations of actors.

I have sung songs in many Indian language be it Kannad, Tamil, Telgu, Marathi, Bhojpuri or Hindi and worked with all the good music directors.

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.