Quotes About Diversity

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

My sister is married to a white guy, so it's nothing new for our family.

Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be concerned with whether he's funny.

I've always said Moroccan artistes are extremely talented, and the world needs to take notice.

I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.

I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

I felt that mainstream comedy caters to men and people don't even notice.

Being different means you are noticed more, and sometimes that has been helpful.

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it.

I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'

The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

I noticed that, on 'Spooks,' there were a lot of women behind the camera and in different departments.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

Ride It' did it for me. Not only did the Asian community love it, but the black community and the white community got to hear about it. The song became such a big hit for me and got me noticed by the CEOs of Cash Money in America.

Years ago I played different female roles in 'Grand Indian Comedy Show,' but as it was not as popular show as 'TKSS' and 'CNWK,' it never got noticed.

What I noticed is that the lens from which people want to look at 'Minari' is just from that Asian-American angle. And I think that can end up being very frustrating. Because the craft of the film, and this film itself, is meant to embody a lot of different things.

I've noticed that Hindi films do well in the north, but they don't do that well in the south. But, I want everything! I want the north and the south.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.