Quotes About Diversity

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

I'm very excited by the notion of very different people trying to help each other out.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa nova music, too.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

We're a great part of the show... we're a novelty on the show. I think having one Divas match a night really makes it special, and I'm proud to be a part of it and hope to take it to the next level.

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

Now everybody's sampling.

I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.