Quotes About Diversity

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It's famous for it. There'd be blokes dressing up as women as a lark, but 'EastEnders' seems blind to the fact that they enjoy a laugh. There should be a cheery chappy on there.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.

The art of drag is intrinsic to who I am.

I think growing up, I didn't ever attempt to define my Koreanness. It was just this intrinsic part of me.

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

I want to introduce people and my fans in Bihar to the Maharashtrian culture.

I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?'

I have introduced Filipino culture to the world.

Apl introduced me to all the Pinays he knew, and so I married one.

For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

We've heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don't hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.

'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.

We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful.

If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

I don't love it when people come in and say, 'We need a woman on our board,' or 'Can you invest in this new shopping app because you like to shop?' But whatever gets me in the deal.

A funny thing happens when you go to another country or invest in a company from another country. Suddenly everyone in that community realizes that YC is for them, too.

I don't invest in shares in companies that don't have women on their board.

You have to cultivate diversity for it to work, and I feel the 'Great Comet' didn't take the time to cultivate it. They didn't want to invest in it.