Quotes About Diversity

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries.

We see them come. We see them go. Some are fast. And some are slow. Some are high. And some are slow. Not one of them is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother.

No one is better or worse than anyone else, just different. You're okay, they're okay.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

becoming American is less a function of birth or blood and more a function of embracing a set of ideas."14

Politics: A combination of "poli" meaning many, and "tics" meaning irritating little bugs.

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

Seek out new, interesting experiences,

this concept. From Mozart to Bobby Fischer to Bill Gates to the Beatles, their diverse journeys from nothing

Thus, we must be insistent on not only our right to express our views, but others to do the same (even if we don't agree with them), lest we all lose our freedom to speak our minds. Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.

That's why the coffee house in the Age of Enlightenment and the Parisian salons of modernism were such engines of creativity; they were spaces where many people from many different backgrounds and areas of expertise came to swap, join, and borrow many different ideas. Don't

The more varied your knowledge and experiences are, the more likely you are to be able to create new associations and fresh ideas.

Become educated, encourage others to follow, and together, despite our divergent political leanings, we can stand united as human beings who recognize and respect each other's rights to enjoy life and liberty, to acquire and possess property, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety.

He smiled at me with his barn-wide smile. I knew he didn't think I was a cur of an Indian, not at all. He knew what I was.

Krezy, he pronounced it, krezy. Pure Roscommon. Pure Ghana.

Madness has an enormous pavilion Where it receives folk from every region, Especially if they have gold in profusion.

If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.

Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours".