Quotes About Diversity

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.

I like too many different kinds of movies to only want to do one kind.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.