Quotes About Diversity

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie.

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

You can make Jesus however you want. I think it's beautiful that there is no specific type, you can imagine whatever you want.

My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people.'