Quotes About Diversity

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he?

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody did he.

Deer and hare and dove and groundvole all richly empaneled on the air for her delight, all nations of the possible world ordained by God of which she was one among and not separate from.

You work through race, you don't deny race. It's the difference between being color-blind and love-struck. You see, if I love you, I don't need to eliminate your whiteness. If you love me, you don't need to eliminate my blackness. You embrace humanity.

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America—even though the white press attempted to do so.

We are witnessing a rebellion. It's beautiful to see the qty of protests and the scope and breadth of all colors, all genders, all sexual orientations, all ethnicities and all religious identities in the USA.

I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

After all," she said, "many people here have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different than them—so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six." Of

The unicorns lifted their heads. Of course they weren't white. Why were things in this world always white-washed? Their hides were brown and grey, mottled black, and pale yellow like the autumn sun drifting through the damp fog above.

Men liked to claim how different they were, yet they were all so alike.

After all,' she said, 'many people have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different to them — so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?

Was it just a coincidence that the only women who rose through the ranks in this industry acted like poster children for toxic masculinity? Was that my future, if I stayed in the business?

Bless the wooly alt. hierarchy and all those who sail in her.

Someday, people are going to realize that. Someday, enough white folks, enough rich white folks are going to realize that living in a lawless city where hooligans like you can administer beatings and then get your victims locked up for the crime of complaining about it is no good for them. "But long before then, everyone else is going to wake up to that fact. Brown people. White people. Chinese people and Puerto Ricans and everyone

it turned out she just made good money working for a law firm that did a lot of western business and didn't mind having a trans girl for a paralegal.

Then he notices, he's a he again. Why not. Gender is just a slider.

I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.