Quotes About Diversity

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

There is no racism in Italy.

There are many good players, in Italy and abroad.

When we talk about racists, first, racists still exist on this earth. They're in Europe and in Austria and Germany where we play, in Italy. I've heard a lot of things and also have my own experience with that. We don't have space for this, especially in football, but also just on the Earth.

I don't think Italy is a racist country, because there are so many immigrants.

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That's where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles - North Hollywood, to be exact.

What's nice is between 'Wolverine and the X-Men' and 'Thor,' I get to write two very different kinds of stories. Both of them really seem to scratch some itches for me.

I am itching to play every character.

I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers.

I don't judge people who are in item numbers.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

Even as I was trying to become a rock god, Michael Jackson was the ultimate magic rock star to me. I loved his music, his scene and style. He transcended musical categories.

Big up Samuel L. Jackson, because here's a guy who has broken down doors.

I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.

'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.