Quotes About Diversity

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

I'm a Native American actress.

It's taken over 240 years for there to be a Native American woman elected to congress, so it's definitely significant that we were able to accomplish that.

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.