Quotes About Diversity

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.

No minority should climb all over the majority.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to get elected, and so it's something we should do something about and which we can do something about.