Quotes About Diversity

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

What did it mean to be a Jewish woman, and how did that differ from being a white or mainstream one? Why were middle-class Jews Democrats, and some of our equally middle-class Protestant neighbors Republican?

Our Jewishness was racially a middle place to experience womanhood. In relation to mainstream white folks, the women of my family felt different. However, in relation to African Americans, we experienced ourselves as mainstream and white.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow

There won't be separate stalls in heaven.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: 'they' does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Lisa's mama says all people are part of Christ's body, so some people have to be the armpits.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I'm a hard-of-hearing man in the hearing world and I'm a Deaf man with a little hearing in the Deaf world. I'm not one or the other—I'm both! Because Deaf people come all different ways—just like ice cream.

We thought we only wanted X, but having read this application, it seems important to expand our thinking to include Y.

Terroir is a way by which man uses soil, vine, and climate to express a trait in wine. Terroir isn't a hierarchy for quality, but rather a mantle for the sense of identity. This notion is a sensitive one in times of changing fashions. Wine is diversity, and terroir is a real way to escape the monotony of daily life.

The best way to learn nothing about wine is to continue to drink what you already know you like.

Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter or faster is dangerous just 'cause they got more brains or quicker feet. Ain't fair. Peeps can't help how they're born.

But this healer, like so many others, was afraid of what was different and thus condemned it. Ignorance translated into fear, which quickly became persecution.

I think men don't realize women think dicks are beautiful. Not all dicks.

There are more balls in twenty feet of street here than there are in all of Dublin, and I'm proud to be swaying in the nut sack. We might fight each other, but in times of danger, we'll fight together. Dude!

I decided to try a stab in the dark, figuring anyone who worked with so many books surely knew a little of something about a lot of everything.

Everything isn't black and white like you want it to be.

Not everyone has to like you. Not everyone has taste.

all humans are given the same set of primary-metaphor building blocks, but different language and cultural groups put the blocks together in different ways. Some individuals even force the blocks together in ways that don't fit – which is the major reason we get mixed metaphors.