Quotes About Diversity

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

I definitely think awards ceremonies should have gender-neutral categories.

There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

There's always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren't.

My parents saw certain things differently than other people.

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they still don't understand. So maybe they can also educate themselves as well.

I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

It is okay, I believe it is not wrong for the industry or the audience to think that a lead actress must look a certain way or have a body of a certain type.

When everyone decides that they have to be a certain way, that there's one way to be a man and one way to be a woman, that's when we go down the wrong path.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

I like having the radio on, that way you're challenged to listen to things that aren't your choice.

When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to become an issue when it is challenged or under threat.

I think each role has had different challenges.

For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one.