Quotes About Diversity

You are American, Japanese, Korean and by being all of those things, you are not truly any of those things.

The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

And yet, in K-town, he felt more Korean than he ever had before. Or to put a finer point on it, he felt more aware of the fact that he was a Korean and that that was not necessarily a negative or even a neutral fact about him. The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.

The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures.…a world where white european people only make art about white european people.

Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.

A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don't you? I'm terrified of that world , and I don't want to live in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you--to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the hotel. "Do you mind what your father said?" she asked him. "No," Marx said. "I loved being a student actor. I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

What do you read?" Ismay asks. "Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then A.J. got me into other kinds of books, too. Literary fiction, I think you'd call it. Some of it doesn't have enough action for my taste. Kind of embarrassing, but I like young adult. Plenty of action there and feelings, too.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again. He

The problem with it is that gender exists," she said. "Differences exist, and the law must acknowledge that or the law isn't fair.

I wish I had what you and Grandma have." "You have different things," Dong Hyun said. "You were born into a different world than I was. Maybe you don't need what Grandma and I have.

Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting." The world seemed filled with interesting books to read, interesting plays and movies to see, interesting games to play, interesting food to taste, and interesting people to have sex with and sometimes even to fall in love with. To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

Lambiase and the first Ms. Fikry speak variations on the phrase, "A town isn't a town without a bookstore." Surely, they both must have read American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

A.J. piensa en qué parecido es todo el género policíaco. ¿Por qué un libro es diferente de cualquier otro? Son diferentes, concluye A.J., porque son. Tenemos que ver muchos por dentro. Tenemos que creer. Aceptamos llevarnos alguna decepción para que, de vez en cuando, algo nos entusiasme de verdad.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that

Pada akhirnya, kita adalah kumpulan karya.

Que algo sea bueno o aceptado universalmente no es motivo suficiente para rechazarlo.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

you're stuck, reading helps: "The Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway. We should

Má»™t nÆ¡i tá»­ t? sao có th? thi?u ti?m sách ???c ch?, Izzie.

Frankie had always played the same songs, but they had nonetheless always been different, changing in a thousand different ways that Kevin could scarcely name.