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Quotes About Diversity

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.
~ Tommy Dorfman
Disagreement is something normal.
~ Dalai Lama
Let's embrace being not normal!
~ Angelina Jolie
Normal is the average of deviance.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal.
~ Roger Scruton
We just do not know what is normal.
~ Ruth Westheimer
I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.
~ Amber Riley
My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.
~ Ntozake Shange
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
~ Tom G. Palmer
People like to see certain actors do certain things, and people like to see me play that role. I also have no interest in playing a normal girl in a romantic comedy in some cutesy thing.
~ Drea De Matteo
When you live in England you can lead a normal life.
~ Nicolas Anelka
I want my children to have a normal life and not face racism and their children's children.
~ Patrick van Aanholt
It's important that people can be themselves and live a normal life that's not defined by a disability.
~ Jessica Long
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
~ Edward Furlong
Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That's just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It's going to always be weird for normal people.
~ Tech N9ne
There's value in being a normal person.
~ Kelsea Ballerini
I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'
~ Morgan Wallen
I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.
~ Moeen Ali
People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'
~ Morten Tyldum
I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.
~ Frances Arnold
Guess girls are normally blonde, blue-eyed bombshells. It was nice to be a brunette one.
~ Priyanka Chopra
We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.
~ Simon Rattle