Quotes About Diversity

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.

Shortly after he became the first Muslim to attend cabinet, I urged Sadiq Khan to be prepared. The Islamophobes, the new McCarthyites, would at some stage come after him. He laughed it off. Yet it was only a matter of time.

The Cabinet led by KCR had no place for a single woman.

Everybody's got cable.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

It's an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren't the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about.

I think California has the best energy.

Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

There is nothing wrong with Radha Ravi calling women to his office. There's nothing wrong if a man calls women to his office. There is something wrong if a man calls men to his office.

It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.

I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.

I'm just Jeffree. Everyone calls me he/she/whatever they want to call me; I'm an alien.

I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.

At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

Plus-size girls are now doing beauty campaigns and hair campaigns and so many different things that for so long we fought for and wanted.

When I have basketball camps and I tell kids my story, they're like, 'You played in Maine? In Israel? You did this and that?' I experienced a lot, and I feel like it made me not only the person I am today, but the basketball player I am.

To become a country, and truly call ourselves Canada, it means we must become one.

Canada's the best country in the world.

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Canada is one of the best countries. There's so much to see here.

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.