Quotes About Diversity

That's the beautiful thing about my show... It's truly different every week. We get to pick and choose. Every morning, the girl from production comes to me with 100 different items, and I go, 'Fake, fake, fake, fake... that's cool.'

I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.

When I was young, I was picked on for something that today I feel is amazing. One thing about me connects millions of people around the world. And it's my skin condition - vitiligo.

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.

People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.

I wasn't picked for the improv group in college - not because I wasn't good, but because I was told I didn't fit the group, didn't gel with their dynamic.

The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'

I don't want to say why I should be picked over somebody. I just want to say why I should be picked for any team.

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

I would never have picked up cycling had it not been for my disability because it just wasn't something I saw. You see someone riding past in their Lycra and it's normally white, middle-class males and I never would have seen myself in that position, being an elite cyclist.

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

There are so many factors involved in picking a model for a shoot or show. If they want a brunette, then they're not going to go with me.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.