Quotes About Diversity

I'm like an '80s kid. I was born in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s kicked in, I'm listening to Dead Kennedys, but I'm also listening to Simple Minds.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

My best friend in the Marines, her name is Kim, said one day while we were in Iraq that homosexuals in the Forces should be put on the front line because they deserved to die. This was my best friend talking.

If you look at someone like Kim Coates, you realize that he's been in everything.

My body is the way it is - it's never going to be a body like Kim Kardashian or Angelina Jolie. We're all different, and we're all unique.

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write a song, I had all these influences comin' through.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.

I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.

I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I grew up with all kinds of people.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.