Quotes About Diversity

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

aliens in blood, aliens in language, and aliens in religion," as Lord Lyndhurst said of the Irish

Migration is the greatest compliment that can be paid to a nation,

The White Australia policy, drafted at the top of the boom, became the wrong answer to almost every problem the colonies confronted once growth ended, and then the wrong message to send the world when they finally formed a federation in 1901.

Among the first to land was the 22-year-old Hieu Van Le, a future governor of South Australia.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

He may become British; he can never become English.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

We need an activism of cohesion. We need an activism that doesn't separate Americans into like-minded factions but brings Americans together across tribal lines.

But to abolish assessments, as many Just Americans want to do, and then declare that we've achieved "equity," ensures that all students receive exactly the same lousy education.

You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. And this is only hranna, child. There are hundred kinds of grass out there, grasses as yellow as lemon and as dark as indigo, blue grasses and orange grasses and grasses as rainbows.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we've never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.

We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.