Quotes About Diversity

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

I guess I'm a black woman with a mouth.

Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.

I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.

You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

I'm so humbled and honored to be chosen to represent myself as a black woman to America, and I look at it as such a positive. That's what made me move forward and want to embrace being the first black Bachelorette.

There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.

I've been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I've felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn't just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

I moved a lot when I was in California, so I know a lot of people everywhere.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their business to make sure I saw positive images of myself and celebrated images of black women.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

There have always been small anti-Korea movements, and I think it's all due to cultural differences.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.