Quotes About Diversity

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

I hear America singing! Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs!

When everybody around you thinks the same way, you can't even see what you're believing in.

It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees.

The article I haven't enclosed, but you know the kind of thing: "in attendance were Trotskyites, Teamsters, Socialist professors and old-line Quakers, the crackpot fringes of public opinion, hoping to arouse draft resistance while praying for an easy way out." In other words, the kind of thing you and

Our addiction to just two crops has made us the fattest people who've ever lived, dining just a few pathogens away from famine.

Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.

She knew from other places she'd worked that rich people liked owning things made by different kinds of people--Africans, Eskimos, Native Americans. It didn't seem to matter what the object looked like, or to what gory purpose it might have been put, as long as it had belonged to some other people first, and as long ago as possible.

Nowadays, people wanted to tell you class didn't exist and color didn't matter anymore. Look at Miss America and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Miss America and the chairman were no more black people than Mother Teresa was white people. Men like Nate and women like her were the people, the folks, the mud from which the rest were made. It was their hands and blood and sweat that had built everything, from the North Carolina governor's mansion to the first stoplight.

There are no fools out here, she thought, only a whole lot of ways of getting to the same place.

Sometimes it's hard being dark-skinned, just like it's sometimes hard to be any shade of brown or yellow. But it's not awful. We're just as cute and wonderful as anyone else.

saw a girl with a ring through her nose, a lady pushing a poodle in a stroller, and a guy wearing a cardboard box.

Curiosity is the best antidote to prejudice... Learn to see all humankind in its maddening, glorious complexity.

Because people are always afraid of what they do not know, what they do not understand, the unfamiliar or the different, and

Not all emeralds are exactly the same color.

Because people are always afraid of what they do not know, what they do not understand, the unfamiliar or the different, and that fear invariably turns to hate. Unreasoned hatred that makes no sense. In

Siamo mutanti, tutti, alcuni piu' evoluti, altri meno, c'e' chi e' un po' in ritardo, c'e' chi non si e' accorto di niente, chi fa tutto per istinto e chi e' consapevole, chi fa finta di non capire e chi non capira' mai, chi punta i piedi e chi corre all'impazzata in avanti.

America has always needed such transcendental notions to bind together its citizens, who have come from different cultures all over the world. And Americans are then driven to prove the universality of these ideas, and so their validity, by aggressively converting other cultures. In a religious context, this behavior would be recognized as missionary in its origins and effect.

In some ways, the neighborhood was the poster child for bad zoning. There were shiny glass-and-steel condominiums across from corrugated and I-beam parking garages. Single-family homes perched alongside recycling plants and foundries. A new multistory school turned its proud granite façade away from its neighbor, a dilapidated relic of a car repair shop, like an ungrateful child ashamed of an ailing parent.

And there was no ultimate reality—any culture that would judge the perceptions of another, particularly one outside its own traditions, should proceed cautiously.

diversity is an ineluctable component of every successful attempt to establish order.

the possibilities in all this are so extensive that to gather it all under one name, Homo sapiens, borders on absurdity.

To eliminate diversity would be like eliminating carbon and expecting life to go on.

the modern university is a kind of intellectual shopping mall.