Quotes About Diversity

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

I really don't consider myself a man or a woman. I just kind of float in between and that's how I've always felt.

When we have gay characters on TV, they're just, kind of, gay for the sake of being gay. That's their personality. That's their whole backstory, that's their future story, that's their present story - it's just gay. Nobody's just gay.

I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.

You can't control where you are born, and when you're growing up, until you've seen something else, you're just living your life.

Being a big black man in China in the mainland, walking down the street, you have everyone looking at you, 'Basketball?' They don't really see a lot of us around, maybe on TV, so they're just looking.

I'm just looking for really good projects with varying characters - ones I haven't done before - so I can continue to grow as an actress.

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids in L.A. County is white, so when you're looking out there, it's a very brown city.

Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child.

I know that people know me for my dunks, but if you've seen me play you know that's just one part of my game.

I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.

I make music for the whole world, not just one borough.

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.