Quotes About Diversity

As early as June of 1981, Brighton Beach was known as Little Odessa, with a quarter of its businesses owned by Soviet Jews.

New York, to Whyte, needed to produce more than just money; it needed to produce social capital. Even as New York careened, he celebrated its street life—"Characters are flourishing," he wrote. "It is the work of a great city to be tolerant of them, and New York is.

I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.

I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.

There's a lot of racism when I was in the Navy, and I had to deal with that.

In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.

I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

There are nearly 7 billion people on this planet, so there are a lot of characters to play.

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

It's neat seeing people that aren't necessarily part of my demographic who really get the jokes. I love it.

I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.