Quotes About Diversity

I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

As far as I am getting interesting projects to work in, it doesn't matter whether it's Bollywood, South or Gujarati. The script is the hero for me.

Atlanta is not the South.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

A multi-racial team with a black captain means a lot to the country. There will always be negative political parties in South Africa, but hopefully it's something to take forwards.

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

I love South Africa.

I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots of inequality, has shaped me in terms of how I view certain issues.