Quotes About Diversity

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first of all, there are other people already doing that, and they're making a lot of money doing it.

It's very necessary, showing the positive aspect of a black father. We see a lot of black women being the head of the household and holding the house down, but I think we need to have those images because there are black fathers out there who are doing the same thing and who are the glue to the family. That's who Black Lightning is.

There are certain images attached to an Indian woman - a mother, daughter, homemaker... there are certain parts of it that I really like, and I love having that identity also, but I feel women shouldn't be limited to that.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

I've done every imaginable job possible out there - movies, TV, animation, TV movies... and, at this point, almost reality, it seems. It's been a real blessing. It's been a great ride.

I've had every hair style imaginable.

If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

I'm straight, but it's immaterial what your sexuality is. Isn't it really just about being a fulfilled human being?

I truly believe that love is love and gender is immaterial.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.

When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.