Quotes About Diversity

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.

All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Everyone to his taste.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Toleration is the best religion.

Travel teaches toleration.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.