Quotes About Diversity

My journey has really been trying to normalize girls loving girls.

Whether you say I'm too black, I'm not black enough, this is me. I hope people realize that my journey to love doesn't have to be any different just because my skin is.

I'm a black woman and I'm so happy to represent myself in that respect, but I don't want it to be something that defines me and my journey for love. I definitely don't mind talking about it and addressing it.

Football has always been my number one thing, but I have other things in my life, like fashion, which is something that has always been in my family.

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

I've been part of five different bands in my time.

I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the Japanese culture.

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

I've been so lucky to do different things. The world in which 'Westworld' takes place is so unique and bizarre, and it's really interesting to explore that whole universe with the language and brutality going on there. With 'Inferno,' there's the Dan Brown mystery.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.