Quotes About Diversity

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

always remember your unique, just like everone else

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

There are too many souls in the world for any one of us to have the luxury of being unique.

How could the same nose, mouth and eyes appear handsome in one man, merely plain in another?

There would be no one god, but only an appreciation of the life force of the universe and its many masks and names.

Why have only one river goddess when you could have forty?

The richness and variety of the human race enchanted him; he was not repelled by weaknesses or failings and was tolerant of most behaviours, even the least endearing. Difficult people interested him far more than those whose conversations and ideas inspired the spirit, or whose physical beauty constricted breath in the throat. He sought out the unusual, observing behaviour with cool yet committed interest. He loved them all.

Your magic is not the only kind.

I make no distinctions concerning gender, at least not when desire is invoked.

I think the strangenesses are things we should face together, Taps and tubes alike. I supposed you felt the same.

There was something to suit every taste, even the most outlandish and grotesque.

You are different, Daniel, but then this is a changed world to the one where we once walked as friends.

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

In short, given continuous spacetime, there are a second-order infinity of possible histories of the biosphere.

The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin's nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself.

I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised

You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

Racism is a by-product of ignorance,

Susan took a sheet of paper and pinned it to the fridge door amongst all the other kids' pictures: frogs, princesses, unicorns, dragons, and monster trucks. All of which looked as if they'd been done during Picasso's Off His Face period. The new one was some sort of dinosaur/