Quotes About Diversity

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an Anglo production, to cross over.

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that only gender non-conforming, non-binary, or trans people have a gender identity. But the truth is, everyone has a gender identity.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

I've always identified with the misfits.

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.

My whole life had been bands that were men-centric - and that's a great thing, I know a lot about how to handle myself - but I think I was missing something.

There are places all over the world that are missing burger places.

Everyone has their own mission in life and what they've got to do. You can't knock them for it. There's always a lot going in people's lives.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

I am passionate about higher education and am hugely impressed by Portsmouth's mission to encourage students from every walk of life to excel.

We've always been about empowering people who feel like us and come from the communities that we come from and want to believe in our mission.