Quotes About Diversity

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences.

In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant.

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

Before I modeled, I never thought I was beautiful. Even right now, I don't think I'm beautiful. I think it's my personality that makes my beauty different and unique. If you look in the past, Chinese people have always considered things like big eyes, pointy nose, or big lips beautiful. I had the same thoughts as a child watching movies.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Trump is inadvertently forcing us to show him how great this country truly is - that we are better together than we are divided.

I inadvertently made Israel look better without even trying, because I am this Muslim guy from Israel who does not hate Israel!

In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.

Racism holds no place in our game and it holds no place in society. But unfortunately there are going to be incidents.

I think people are just going to be people, and racism is a thing. If people have an inclination to be racist then they are going to be, and there is not a whole lot that you can do about it.

MP is like my second home. It's a culturally inclined state.

Just because you're inclined to do something one way doesn't mean that's the 'right' way.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!

What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.