Quotes About Diversity

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

We Yankees don't like anybody, including each other, but we tolerate everybody." Even

Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us a glimmer of the complexity and wonder of life. All this, the censor would deny us.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

The examination of even a small part of the world's music and what it means to various peoples and to various creative persons is in some ways rather like a plunge into dominant night. It is a plunge into a realm of the comparatively

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

enough to the Stars and Stripes and different enough from

I do not understand how private schools claim that the entry of disadvantaged children will dilute merit; all that it will do is to breach the complacency and conceit of privilege. There

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

there is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: They discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it.

silencing doesn't resolve anything; rather than erase differences

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you've reached beyond stereotype.

If one being or thing, however apparently useless, were missing in this universe of endless variety, it would be as it were a note missing in a song.

we could say that, since this reaction is a matter of degree, your worldview is modern insofar as experiencing other cultures in your own backyard gives you vertigo.

She was determined to live as fully as possible—to write, to travel, to cook, to draw, to love as much and as often as she could. She was, in the words of a close friend, "operatic" in her desires, a "Renaissance woman" molded as much by Romantic sublimity as New England stoicism.5 She was as fluent in Nietzsche as she was in Emerson; as much in thrall to Yeats's gongs and gyres as Frost's silences and snow.

He drew witches, wolves, and ghosts; she sketched landscapes and cottages.