Quotes About Diversity

The variety of shapes, colours and textures under her feet was, she believed, literally infinite. It must be. Each shell, each pebble, each stone had been made what it was by aeons of submarine or subglacial massage. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the unfairness of human life into perspective.

How's things, man?" The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow. "Very good," said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn't have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.

Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.

El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be gay, I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza.

Naš je um razlika diskursa, naša istorija razlika vremena, naše ja razlika maski.

If instructional expertise and cultural competence, or the ability to teach across difference, are essential to improving student achievement, then teachers are educational leaders with the greatest scope of influence

In the seminar room, Helen had lit the chalice and given a short speech about not focusing on one kind of minister—a man, a woman, a person of color, or someone within a certain age range—when the person who most needed to hear this slipped in.

Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.

It's not supposed to work that way, her brother said. Marilyn just looked at him. She didn't think he was right about that. She thought there were a lot of different ways that things could work.

Nearly all the queers Michelle knew were fuckups in one way or another.

Men imagine gods to be born, and to have clothes and voices and shapes like theirs....Yea, the gods of the Ethiopians are black and flat-nosed, and the gods of the Thracians are red-haired and blue-eyed.

Las escuelas de derecho no deben ser espacios inmunes a la discusión política que se da en la sociedad.

Si la imaginación del hombre es tan débil que no acierta a inventar un garabato que diferencie claramente el cero de la O, Jacinto, todo ha de ser confusión, convéncete, porque hay mucha gente interesada en armarla (la confusión) porque de ella (de la confusión) sacan tajada los vivos, ¿te das cuenta?, y la única oportunidad de convivencia que se nos dio a los humanos, la Torre de Babel, la desperdiciamos bien tontamente.

En ningún cuerpo falta un lunar.

In a relationship, we can pretend to be the same, to think the same, to feel the same, to dream the same, but there is no way that can happen. There are two dreamers with two dreams.

You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

And he saw that Life mixed the tonal and the nagual in different ways to create billions of manifestations of Life.

It's a shame there aren't any Native Bears here to share it with us, said Brother. Never fear, said Gramps, seating himself at the head of the table. My great, great grandmother was one-quarter Native Bear and I am ready to share. Let's eat!

a writer concocts a different story for every reader.