Quotes About Diversity

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

I liked working with smart people.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

The world has many very smart people who are doing interesting and different things, and there is no better way to learn than to interact with them.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

I don't want any of my sisters to be like Tomi Lahren. You all are smarter, sharper, more articulate, brilliant, so why would I want y'all to be like her?

I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.

We're smarter and more innovative when we're diverse.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.

We need women behind the camera like we do in front of the camera. That's when we will have stronger, smarter, better roles for us.

Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.