Quotes About Diversity

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.

I just love all women. A lot of them are women a lot of men wouldn't find attractive in the least, but they're mouth-watering to me. All different sizes: tall, short, fat. Just about the only type I'm not into is the typical fashion model.

When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

Getting to prove yourself in a room that's not your typical demo is an experience every comic should try. It makes you better.

People look at me and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

I'm not a typical public school boy.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but then I moved to Sydney, and apparently it was. People look at me and don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. Thankfully, my mother raised me well in knowing where I come from and who I am, and I'm proud of that.

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.