Quotes About Diversity

?nsanlar, do?u?tan e?ittirler: kullukta, fanilikte e?itlik. Sonra, iman sayesinde yeni bir e?itlik kazan?rlar, karde? olurlar.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Americans believe their ideas are universal—the supremacy of the individual and free, unfettered expression. But they are not. Never were . . .

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

All marriages are mixed marriages.

The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.

In South Africa, "some women identify as gay rather than lesbian" and a "masculine man" playing the dominant role in a relationship with another man, for instance, is called "a straight man" and is not perceived as "gay" because he act as penetrator during sexual intercourse. This holds true to some extent in North Africa and in the Middle East.

The term "queer" is not simply a 1990s recoding of a pre-Stonewall epithet but here refers to a myriad forms of same-sex and other non-normative kinds of desire that have come to inform certain specific identity groups such as gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender individuals, transsexuals, transvestites, cross dressers, drag queens, drag kings, alternative straights and anyone in between.

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. First,

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. First, the Indian does not speak of these deep matters so long as he believes in them, and when he has ceased to believe he speaks inaccurately and slightingly. Second,

Let those I serve express their thanks according to their own upbringing and sense of honor. "The Wisdom of the Native Americans" By Kent Nerburn

You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Not all people are affected the same way by the same events. We are each our own fingerprints and the sum of our own life's experiences.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Genius is of no country.

We have as many personalities as we have friends' Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fourier believed the world would eventually contain thirty-seven million poets equal to Homer, thirty-seven million mathematicians equal to Newton, and thirty-seven million dramatists equal to Molière—although, he admitted, these were only "approximate estimates.