Quotes About Diversity

I just want a lady who can be themselves, it's not a cookie cutter criteria that a woman should fall under.

Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

I used to like Lady Gaga. I still love her. But what I like about LMFAO is that they're completely outside of the box; they're completely different. They're not ridiculous, but they are not afraid of it. And also, it's a certain type of artistry.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.

Hyderabad used to be this sweet laid back town, everything was accepted. Coming from Chennai I thought it was a town.

I live in Salt Lake City, and I don't have a lot of gay friends.

When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

I'm a music fan first and foremost. I can find the beauty in Jellyfish and U2 just as much as Opeth and Lamb of God, just as much as I can with Rush and Yes.

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.

The land of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, and Subash Chandra Bose has mesmerised me. I am really happy to meet such lovely people, good and kindhearted people.

This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and the lack of diversity.

Where I come from in U.P., there is a whole settlement of Punjabis who converted sandy, barren lands into green fields swaying with agricultural produce. So, I have always had great respect for the Punjabi community.

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

I'm meeting people I never would have met at Brown and doing things I couldn't do because of basketball.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.

I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you heard of the term 'chipster'?' And I was like, 'Of course - Chicana hipster.'

I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.

Everybody meets a lot of idiots in their line of work, not just in music.