Quotes About Diversity

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups.

It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine.

I don't want to put on any gimmicky layers just to give the character more definition. I just want to play good characters. It doesn't matter to me if it's 'open ethnicity' or 'specifically Asian.'

With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.

What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about in the late 1500s as a non-gendered word. It applied to all people, regardless of anatomical sex or gender identity.

I want authenticity. And rarely do actors - more specifically, black actors - get a chance to be authentic on film and television.

It's very hard as an Asian actress to get seen for anything which isn't specifically Asian in England.

Hawaii is a melting pot of people and my school specifically has a lot of diversity that personally inspires me in everything I do.

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.

Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may be being a lawyer, it may be making a beautiful cabinet, it may be being a spectacular dry cleaner. It could be anything. We all have gifts in different areas.

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.

I have Asperger's, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I don't really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.

Growing up, I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from 'I Dream of Jeannie' on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.