Quotes About Diversity

There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.

Every project is different. Adapting 'Robopocalypse' would be totally different than adapting, say, 'Hunger Games.' Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there's one single way to approach everything. Each project, there's a different way to attack it.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.

Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am.

We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're all united by common values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity, even if we don't always agree on how to achieve them.

It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.

It would be false if I claim that the Congress has in the past not let down its ideology, especially pertaining to Muslim community.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

We're never going to write an 'American Idiot' song.

The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are - which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.

What I love about 'American Idol' is that it's broad.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

Even if you look at 'American Idol,' or 'X-Factor,' or 'The Voice' or anything, it was always difficult to see an Asian or an Asian-American make it to a certain point.

If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.