Quotes About Diversity

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.

Just because I run an indie label doesn't mean I don't think Jay-Z is nice.

I believe that if you want gender, then you can have it. If you want to label yourself, then sure. If you want to use history to describe who you are, then there is nothing wrong with that. But don't limit me on the way that you limit yourself.

It's more about the music and doing good shows than it is about our ethnicities. We're not trying to label ourselves as the all-around universal ethnic group. It's not a gimmick.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn't have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can't be true.

Labels are for cans, not people.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don't let it confine you. Just live without labels.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.