Quotes About Diversity

There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees.

Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.

He's not from here, that's the thing, Cub said. Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?

If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels.

If wishes were horses, like they say. We'd all have different shit to shovel.

What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but somehow we came out different doors, on different ground levels.

If you are one of the few that still hasn't been, let me tell you what a city is. A hot mess not easily escaped.

Bobby Bingo had skin like a baked potato. A complete vegetable man, Lou Ann thought

You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

Cat, this is America, they let anybody vote. Crooks, wigs, even cookies like us. Dogs and cats, probably. Don't take Fido to the polls, he might cancel you out.

The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you!

We're chalk and cheese. Somebody ought to do a study on us, if they want to know how kids in the same family can turn out totally different.

There are Christians, and there are Christians.

No, you shouldn't. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world than no and yes.

They saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom

Waar het om gaat is dat als je het hebt over identiteit, je dat niet zomaar uit mensen kunt wegredeneren. Het verdwijnt niet door de minachting van buitenstaanders, het wordt er juist door verhevigd.

White men tell us: Vote, bantu! They tell us: You do not all have to agree, ce n'est pas nécessaire! If two men vote yes and one says no, the matter is finished. Á bu, even a child can see how that will end. It takes three stones in the fire to hold up the pot. Take one away, leave the other two, and what? The pot will spill into the fire.

we've got the whole rest of the world over there, other than people, which are only one thing.

Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.

As a kid you just accept different worlds with different rules, even between some houses and others.

These people and vegetarians and so forth that are all about being fair to the races and the gays, I am down with that. I agree. But would it cross any mind to be fair to us? No, it would not. How do I know? TV. The comedy channel is so funny it can make you want to go unlock the gun cabinet and kill yourself. Do they really think that along with being brainless and having sex with animals, we don't even have cable?

was a guy called Copperhead. Supposedly he had the dark skin and light-green eyes of a Melungeon, and red hair that made you look twice.