Quotes About Diversity

We all see this case— what they're doing to Cormac—as black and white. But we're looking at white as white and Espinoza's looking at white as black. Does that make any sense?" "When maybe if we all saw it as gray we'd be able to come to some sort of compromise.

And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent.

He had a few eccentricities himself and was tolerant of the peculiarities of others; indeed, he rather relished the ridiculous.

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.

Star Wars and Star Trek are good in different ways, and in fairness, you can't really rank them. But Star Wars is better. "YOUR

Asked to resolve problems in a language that is not their own, people are less likely to depart from standard accounts of rationality.

Le tournant fut annoncé en 1931 par un ouvrage de Julian Huxley, zoologue à l'université de Londres (et frère du romancier Aldous Huxley). Il y rejette, précisément au nom de la génétique, la notion de race, « terme de pure convenance pour aider à appréhender la diversité humaine10 ».

Everyone has a different story, and you have to ask yourself what motivates people to see reality the way they do.

And nice is okay when it's among other things, but never when it stands alone.

Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering.

Great artists make the entire world their home.

He said to me one day in the second week of July, "Asher Lev, there are two ways of painting the world. In the whole history of art, there are only these two ways. One is the way of Greece and Africa, which sees the world as a geometric design. The other is the way of Persia and India and China, which sees the world as a flower. Ingres, Cézanne, Picasso paint the world as geometry. Van Gogh, Renoir, Kandinsky, Chagall paint the world as a flower.

In ancient times African and Ethiopian meant the same thing: A Black

Everybody, she says, has been a good citizen. She will say the name, quickly write it on the sticker, and then have m press it to each of their chests as they leave. It is a line of quiet faces. I take them down in my head. Now, she calls out each one as best as she can, taking care of every last pitch and accent, and I hear her speaking a dozen lovely and native languages, calling all the difficult names of who we are.

It turns out that we are one, if not ever how we expected. And it cannot matter that outwardly nothing has changed yet. Maybe we don't even expect it to...We may not soon be heeded, but at least we can feel the long-held rumbles, now open-throated, our lungs warmed and aching with this special use that we know may be poignant only to us. There was so little of this voicing before, and now that there is much more, we see it takes as many forms as there are people, though some don't easily align.

theory is an extremely complicated thing, as varied and mixed-up and contradictory as life itself.

Being exposed to a variety of people with autism is important because not all people on the spectrum are the same. Just because they share a label does not mean they will have anything in common or want to spend time together.

Adults tend to be more understanding and accepting of differences than teenagers. The important thing is to find a group that your adult child is personally interested in being a part of, and then acting on the assumption that he has the right to be there and that he will fit right in.

Vampires, bringing America together!

but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

other hand, New Orleans was a real

But you know that we are different, and people rarely understand what's different.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.