Quotes About Diversity

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.

America is all about live and let live.

while you will have your tailored fifteen responses to each ask you make, when you hear something that you did not expect, just add it to the list.

A veces odiamos lo que es diferente a nosotros. Pero muy amenudo se debe a que tenemos miedo de lo que no comocemos, de lo que es distinto. Y es porque, en el fondo... tememos que nos guste." Gerde

Por que Uri era un árbol, y Viana era humana.

La belleza existe para que podamos apreciarla, y no entiende de cultos, de religiones ni de creencias.

Casi había olvidado el dolor que se siente por dentro cuando es tan evidente que tú y yo no somos iguales.

Cali pensaba que las personas eran como los portales: una ventana abierta a lugares lejanos. Por eso, cuanto más se diferenciaban de ella, tanto más le intrigaban e interesaban. Por todo lo que podían contarle. Por lo mucho que podían ampliar su visión del mundo.

A veces odiamos lo que es diferente a nosotros. Pero muy a menudo se debe a que tenemos miedo de lo que no conocemos, de lo que es distinto. Y es porque, en el fondo... tememos que nos guste.

De vegades odiem el que és diferent de nosaltres. Però molt sovint és perquè tenim por del que no coneixem, del que és diferent. I això respon al fet que en el fons..., ens fa por que ens agradi.

A veces odiamos lo que es diferente a nosotros.Pero muy a menudo se debe a que tenemos miedo de lo que no conocemos, de lo que es distinto. Y porque en el fondo, tememos que nos guste

His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, was growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee.

There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of femininity like I am

Amateur and expert, master and novice, what are these words to Creativity? It loves them all.

getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern.

There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.

Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom is." "Say it in your language to your peers," I urge. Gyerji makes his statement. The class grows silent and thoughtful; there is much nodding. Twain perhaps? Emerson? Diana sidles up and whispers in my ear. "He says to them that freedom is a word when nothing is anymore able to be losed." Janis Joplin, de-syntaxed.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair.

It is one of the oddities of life in Maryland that no single supermarket can serve a household's entire needs.

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie's and Hostess. Duron and the Hechinger store brand of spray paint.

there's a difference between wanting all stories you read to be about you in the most literal sense, and reading with the hope that you can find a bit of yourself in all stories, however alien they may seem on the surface. When our capacity to identify withers, so does a portion of our humanity.

Louise? Oh, you would remember. She doesn't look like anyone else. Her hair is black like Myra's, but perfectly straight like an Oriental's, and she wears it in a Buster Brown.