Quotes About Diversity

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

The country may have been called the "United States," but its thirteen members lived under thirteen different constitutions, 9 with thirteen different ways to value money, thirteen different rules of commerce, and thirteen views on how all the problems of the nation should be solved.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

You must protect people who have no social clout because the health of a congregation is measured by its ability to tolerate dweebs.

It's a cat, but not racist.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.

The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit--subliterature.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

Cook tiene razón cuando dice que las mejores compañías de América son las más diversas, y Apple está en camino de tener una fuerza laboral más diversa. Los avances son lentos

Por eso es imprescindible comprender a fondo las culturas del mundo. —Y añadió—: He aprendido no solo a valorar esto, sino también a apreciarlo. Lo que hace del mundo un lugar interesante son nuestras diferencias, no nuestras similitudes566.»

There is not just one entry route that purports to explain all types of female criminality.

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.