Quotes About Diversity

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with the long-term priority of ensuring that power comes from a diverse mix of energy sources that allows us flexibility as we fight the effects of climate change.

Being a South Indian from Paramakudi, I know I wouldn't be considered for awards many times.

If my mom came to the sets, we would speak to her in Tulu, and no one would understand. That's an advantage when you know any South Indian language.

I will be president for all South Koreans.

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

The problem in South is we don't have access to much of Hindi cinema.

Although my family is originally from Jamaica, I grew up in a diverse community in south London. As my parents were immigrants they made every effort to integrate and we used to go to a wonderful church where we befriended families from all over the world.

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

I am comfortable with all four South Indian languages.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Chinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players, like players who learned football when they were kids. They're not good.

If you go to Canada or Los Angeles, you will get to see many South Asians there, but on screens, they are so less in number. It is abnormal not to have much South Asians on screens.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.