Quotes About Diversity

Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Her twenty-seven books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Judy lives in Key West and New

The best way to learn a foreign language is to fuck interesting foreigners.

My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees too beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat ... I AM A CHIHUAHUA! -- Skippyjon Jones (In his very best Spanish accent)

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. … Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities of life.

caricaturists and rodeo clowns be included in that special group of gifted performers?

What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality'? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary."–LEA DELARIA

In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

whites' obsessive preoccupation with the happenstance of skin color?

difference that is prized but unprivileged,

No individual belongs to "just" one socially constructed category: each has his or her multiple racial, gender, class-based, national identities, and that's just a start of the list. Nor are these categories uniform or stable; we are Whitmanesque, we contain multitudes.

To recognize our many selves is to understand the vast social construction that is not only the individual, but history itself, the present as history. A radical democratic politics must invite us to comprehend this.

Not through repression, but through knowledge of the differences within ourselves can we achieve the solidarity with others which, though necessarily partial, is essential for the creation of a more just and free world.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.

What if we had born Bushmen in the Kalahari? What if our parents had been undernourished villagers in Uttar Pradesh, and we faced the problem of commanding the attention of the world on a diet of five hundred calories a day, and in Urdu? What good is an ace if the other cards in your hand are dogs from every town

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,Yet utter the word Democratic, the wordEn-Masse.