Quotes About Diversity

When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you put a black character in there, somehow the white audience isn't expected to identify with them. That's a problem.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that's why being cognizant of our histories is important.

I do identify as a Muslim and I do identify as a Bangladeshi girl, I identify as British, as well, and a woman and I'm a woman of colour, and why am I ashamed of that? And I used to not want to talk about it. But that is me.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

Plus-size is a term that's never been used in hate; no one has ever used it in a negative way. The industry has always used it to help us identify where to shop.

It's important to celebrate how far we have come while also fighting for justice for those who are still not safe as a result of how they identify.

I do identify myself as a black man before I identify myself as a gay man.

Every human being is special because they all have identities.

We are in Europe, and we want a Europe that does few things and does them well, one that recognizes people's identities, languages, etc.

I'm just really excited to expose people to different identities, different conversations but also to kind of reframe how they think about black women just by being myself.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it, because it is normal. But when you're shielded from something, and it's actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.

I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.