Quotes About Diversity

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.

I am not someone who is different from Colorado. I am part of Colorado. I am like my neighbors and my community.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.

Hindus and Muslims used to be like two neighbors, who had some issues but who also loved each other.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world.