Quotes About Diversity

I've never been to a Pride parade.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am I going to see the most of? I'm not going to see a whole lot of black figures in pictures.

Instead of looking to male mentors, saying this is the paradigm of a candidate and it looks like this, we're suddenly finding that there's some powerful female mentors - and they look a little different.

We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama and epics.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

My painting and writing has always been parallel. That's why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only about a 100, out of which I'd say at least 30-35 films I am even proud of.

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

I believe in equal pay for equal work. Gender, race, skin colour, or ethnicity should not be the parameters to hire someone or to decide how much they should be paid.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never Been Kissed.'

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.

Parenting is different for everybody.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.