Quotes About Diversity

The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that's what you're judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.

It's ok to show all your colors.

It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

Celebrate the idea that you don't fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique.

What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

It's very hard to be a kid, especially in a predominantly white school or white town where other people want to police your body and hair.

Confidence is sexy. That's what 'Sports Illustrated Swim' stands for. They have this movement where you can just be beautiful no matter what shape, what size, your height, your body type, your ethnicity.

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

I've tried to maintain a healthy image but not necessarily a size because as women, we're all different sizes. I go for being the healthy size; whatever that is for you. It's important to embrace that and love your body for what it is. Each woman has her own body.

It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.

It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn't matter because you can do anything.

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?

Running strips you and works your core, mixing it up with different exercises so your body doesn't get used to one thing, so you can really get intense with your workout. I never like to stick to one thing; otherwise, you don't really see that many results.

It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.

I don't believe in playing just one sport. I believe it results in burnout, and each sport trains your body in a different way.

I think it is important to keep redefining yourself as an actor with the roles you do and, at the same time, create diversity in your body of work.

Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's a swimmer, that's a football player.

If you have body hair, I'm like, 'Have your body hair. Have it sticking up the top of your shirt.' I'm really about body positivity and self-love.

Look after all those lovely peculiarities in your face, your body, and yourself.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Gay couples cannot have children. All they can do is recruit your child.