Quotes About Diversity

I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.

I did a one-off episode of 'The New Normal' for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I do a lot of things because if you do just one thing... like, if you run too much, everything just gets loose. You lose weight, but you get loose, and you want to be strong, have muscles.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

It's amazing to be an incubator. Many of my muses have gone on to other brands.

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

What does culture mean? It's not a physical thing. I love a museum, but that, for me, doesn't make you a better person.

If I go to the museum and see white bodies, black bodies, Asian bodies, Latino bodies, then I will expect to see those things every time I go. That matters a lot.

I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black bodies in it on a museum wall... It strengthened me on a cellular level.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.

All music is beautiful.

Music has no limits, borders or ages.

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Music has no borders, which is most important.

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.