Quotes About Diversity

I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

I don't see it as a disability. I'm just a normal person, but a bit smaller than everyone else.

The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view. The challenge of our time is going to be, how do you allow other points of view to exist within what you traditionally see as your world?

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them.

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

It is nice to be out there, amongst contemporaries on a global scale. You meet different people, see different things, meet different producers, eventually grow to collaborate in different ways. The world is getting smaller. It's nice not to be insular.

Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.

If you choose as a woman to work in cinema, the roles are smaller, not as diverse, and sometimes not as exciting. So when you try to have a conversation to say, 'This part is lacking in this or that,' or, 'I don't understand who this person is,' or, 'Why is she in this story?' people are very afraid of that.

If we can make it easier to put smaller, local, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses to work, our communities and our state will benefit.

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.