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Quotes About Diversity

butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.
~ Charles Stross
because you know all the statistics, nearly 45 per cent of gamers are women, even though if you look at the biz from outside it seems to be focussed on an attention-deficient twelve-year-old male with a breast fixation and a sugar high.
~ Charles Stross
and she has yet to see any eunuchs or freemartins at all
~ Charles Stross
Which meant gait metrics were unavailable, and facial recognition was notoriously bad at handling skin tones darker than a typical whitebread silicon valley bro. (It went all the way back to the color cards used to optimize photographic film stock for white-skinned targets in the 1950s: algorithms embodied the prejudices and biases of their designers.)
~ Charles Stross
Justice, he thought, has many faces, but they don't always include mercy.
~ Charles Todd
Race prejudice is the devil unchained.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
I am asking Julius to explain, I said, why his people are so partial to chickens.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Had Julius lived in a happier age for men of his complexion, the world might have had a black Aesop or Grimm
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Given the disparity in the size of the states, it's entirely possible that the majority of states are doing worse while the majority of Americans are doing better. The key lesson is to pay attention to the unit of analysis.
~ Charles Wheelan
All of this will be true no matter what the distribution of the underlying population looks like.
~ Charles Wheelan
I don't believe in rules. I think that there are probably always exceptions to everything
~ Charlie Kaufman
Man cannot live by swine alone.
~ Charlotte MacLeod
De gustibus non est disputandum.
~ Charlotte MacLeod
Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I'm in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can't get up right away.
~ Chelsea Handler
She told me that she liked white people but didn't have any close white friends and asked if I was interested in cross-pollinating. I told her we would see how things went but not to put the chicken wing before the egg. We grew to be fast friends, and a couple
~ Chelsea Handler
A.J. was one of the guys. One of the guys with breasts, a shapely butt, and sparkling green eyes.
~ Cherry Adair
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
~ Chinua Achebe
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different colour, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
~ Chinua Achebe
Igbo sayings and proverbs are far more valuable to me as a human being in understanding the complexity of the world than the doctrinaire, self-righteous strain of the Christian faith I was taught.
~ Chinua Achebe
There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
~ Chinua Achebe
He forgot the saying of the elders that if a man sought for a companion who acted entirely like himself he would live in solitude.
~ Chinua Achebe
Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves.
~ Chinua Achebe
Whether the rendezvous of separate histories will take place in a grand, harmonious concourse or be fraught with bitterness and acrimony will all depend on whether we have learned to recognize one another's presence and are ready to accord human respect to every people.
~ Chinua Achebe
In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.
~ Chris Anderson