Quotes About Diversity

It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that's been lacking on TV.

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.

I work with a lot of lovely ladies.

'Black Ice Cream' is a salute to the ladies with Black Girl Magic who exude a powerful sexual confidence.

The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.

I don't make records just for the ladies. I make it for the fellas, too.

I feel truly blessed to be one of the many black women who are leading ladies on television.

I'll have everyone from 90-year-old ladies wanting to come up and kiss me on the cheek and say they love the show to dads bringing their newborns over wearing onesies.

When the Ladies Chess Club was founded in London in 1895 and the first international women-only competition took place two years later, most clubs and competitions didn't accept women at all.

I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis.

There were no Asian lads boxing when I started.

When I was growing up, some of the lads weren't very nice about me playing.

And it's important that when you're dual-nationality, you're with a group of lads that you enjoy being with.

I'm a true woman, not a Bond girl. That's why I say all the time, 'James Bond lady,' 'James Bond woman.'

I'm aware of this bearded lady being something that is not really common.

I've been around the world seven times, been stabbed three times, been down in an airplane, and once dated the Bearded Lady.

I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.

If you want to be a bearded lady then you are allowed to do that because you're not hurting anybody.

I love myself and the bearded lady is fun and expresses everything I feel.

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.