Quotes About Diversity

We must find ways to encourage more professional women to participate in politics.

The MBA entrance exams are so quantitative-oriented that it keeps out more and more women from joining the MBA classes. If we were to make the entrance exams more all-rounded, you could see more participation.

Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

Once into films, an actress can't say that she would only take on particular kind of roles.

I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

The Miss America Organization's philanthropic arm is particularly appealing to me, as I have made it my mission to give back in ways that empower women and celebrate diversity.

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

I think women are particularly open-minded, partly because we're cultivated to be and also because we're collaborative.