Quotes About Diversity

a white man had indeed shot a dark man, but also that the dark man and the white man were the same.

Anders's pale father was the only pale person present, the only pale person left in the entire town, for there were by that point no others, and then his casket was closed and his burial was occurring and he was committed to the soil, the last white man, and after that, after him, there were none.

all kind of ensembles, humans with humans, humans with electronics, dark skin with light skin with gleaming metal with matt plastic, computerized music and unamplified music

We were marvelously diverse... and yet we were not: all of us, Sherman included, hailed from the same elite universities- Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale; we all exuded a sense of confident self-satisfaction; and not one of us was either short or overweight.

what is natural in one place can seem unnatural in another, and some concepts travel rather poorly, if at all.

In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens:

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.

The only problem was, the founders left a lot of people out of the Constitution. They left out poor people and black people and female people. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. And it still goes on today.

Our eyes all have the same mechanism, yet each of us sees so differently.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

Kendimizle aram?zdaki fark, bir baÅŸkas?yla aram?zdaki fark kadar büyüktür.

All beings share a common world, but each creature has its own way of perceiving this world.

magpies, jays, sparrowhawks, kestrels, all

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them. It's a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.

there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]

there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

When I was fifteen, the perfect world seemed a place of total androgyny, where you wouldn't know a person's gender until you were in bed with him or her. I've since realized that gender is so much deeper than style.

Accept All Humans As Your Equals And Let Them Be our Only Sect

God created us to work as a team, so some of the strengths of men compliment the weaknesses of women and vice versa. If

each religious sect has their own view and interpretation of the Bible.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

que voy de nuevo entre las calles, entre orichas, entre el calor oscuro y corpulento, entre los colegiales que declaman Martí, entre los automóviles, entre los nichos, entre mamparas, entre la Plaza del pueblo, entre los negros, entre guardacantones, entre los parques, entre la ciudad vieja, entre el viejo viejo Cerro, entre mi Catedral, entre mi puerto aquí vuelvo a decír: amor, ciudad atribuída (de Amor, Ciudad Atribuída)

ciudades misteriosas llenas de gente que lincha negros y pisa cucarachas strange cities full of people who lynch negroes and step on cockroaches (de Freedom Now)