Quotes About Diversity

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

When I'm standing in front of all those lawmakers in the European Parliament, then I'm a speaker, when I'm singing, I'm a singer. If I'm on the catwalk, then I'm being a model. That can all happen in one week or even on the same day.

I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.

For film, I think because it's more detailed, and especially with historical material, you really have to find the right projects. Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. When people think of 'dual heritage,' they think it's a modern concept, but really it's not.

As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.