Quotes About Diversity

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

My mum is the biggest Joni Mitchell fan, and my dad loves Neil Young.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're still feeling undertained, there's George Lopez and Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel and - let's see, did we leave out a Jimmy?

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

Sometimes I feel like both; sometimes I feel like neither. Sometimes I feel like something else completely. Gender-wise, I identify as a non-binary person, which means not male, not female.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.

A person like Roy Nelson, a lot of people can relate to him. A lot of Americans look like him, especially where I come from in the South.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

I have never experienced any nepotism or groupism in my career.

I'm a black nerd - a blerd!

I don't consider myself a nerd.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.

You can't play a hobbit if you're not prepared to be a part of nerd culture.

Young people need to see that you can be a nerd and still be cool.

I was an athlete, but I was also a nerd. And so I didn't really fit in with the jocks because I was a nerd, and I didn't fit in with the nerds because I was a jock.

When I was a boy, I was called a nerd all the time - because I didn't like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool - and it hurt a lot. Because it's never OK when a person makes fun of you for something you didn't choose. You know, we don't choose to be nerds.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.