Quotes About Diversity

I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do.

My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin and Junot Diaz. It's a long list that keeps growing.

Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.

I would say the main thing is, don't just copy yourself, which is what a lot of sequels do. And in some cases, it works. Like James Bond movies. But James Bond is a different type of character.

Whenever Jamie Foxx was on 'In Living Color' and then you saw him sing, it didn't take away from either of those things.

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

The concept of 'diversity' was this big moral 'should.' And now with the success of shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat,' 'Empire,' 'Blackish,' and 'Jane the Virgin,' it's become this big business 'must,' which is so great.

My wife Jane left me for another man. Then I fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

I'll be a janitor in 'Crazy Rich Asians 2.' Let's do that.

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

Football in Japan is highly looked upon, even more than in the rest of Asia.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

One of my favorite things is to try delicious different fruits from different places, in Japan or other places that have different fruits you can't get in the States.

I think, if anything, it would be fun to play at house parties or in Japan.

Actually, I live in FL now. But, I mean, of course I'm very honored to be playing for Japan. But my dad's side is Haitian, so represent.

I love fashion from all over the world, from Japan to London to Italy.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.