Quotes About Diversity

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.

We are so different, yet so much the same.

racism and sexism are intertwined [...] and cannot be uprooted separately.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides. Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two, and those who don't.

Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don't have to put on an act. If I'm not feminine enough for someone, I don't care, because femininity is different in everyone's mind.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

and other women of color, the result might well have been even more dramatic. After all, if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also racism and sexism are intertwined—as Mrs. Greene and millions of others experienced—and cannot be uprooted separately.

But for women especially, bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without those visual references, however, each individual woman's body can be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday

White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.

This was a small taste of a general problem: the invisibility in the media of the many women of color who pioneered the women's movement.

We learn from difference, not from sameness.

a crucial purpose of birth families is to make sure we know, value, and even love people we don't agree with.

In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy.