Quotes About Diversity

And they gazed at themselves in it, side by side and hand in hand, and they beheld neither gods nor monsters. They were so nearly unchanged, and yet that one thing - the color of their skin - would, in the real world, change everything.

We're all on the same side. Even her. You can be on the same side and have different ideas.

Every mind is a world of its own

You can be on the same side and have different ideas.

yet that one thing—the color of their skin—would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai

pero ¿no era aquello lo que hacían las religiones? Mirarse con desconfianza unas a otras y afirmar: «Mi creencia indemostrable es mejor que tu creencia indemostrable. Chúpate esa».

war, like fortune, doesn't touch all folk with the same hand.

Every mind is its own world. Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling.

Cada mente es un propio mundo. La mayoría ocupa un vasto terreno medio ordinario, mientras que otras se distinguen más: son más agradables, incluso hermosas, o a veces son resbaladizas y se sienten inexplicablemente erroneas.

Truth has many different drawers and shelves.

Each scream is as different as each Red Boy. Different and the same.

For years I have lived with words and terms that divide people, words that mark who is to be exterminated and who is to be spared.

any nonsense come out they mouth. Some got the gift to make you laugh out loud, and others preach strong and spread the word of God.

Opposing forces close rank, black versus white, Republican versus Democrat, plantation riverbed people versus hill people.

Why can't bilingualism be seen as an extra resource? Is it because kids who can think in two languages are smarter? (from the book Attitude, 2002)

I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown (from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)

We were, after all, a ragtag accumulation of unwanted, an awkward reminder of a war the whole country was trying to forget.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Negro blood is sure powerful—because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop—you are a Negro!… Black is powerful.

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.