Quotes About Diversity

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.

Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.

We don't see the Lifetime brand as just a television brand. We see it as a female media brand. It has to represent what she is interested in, up and down the spectrum, in all kinds of content.

If big, old-fashioned businesses don't attract female talent, then small up-and-coming ones will, and they will end up winning.

My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.

For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.

Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and we grew up as part and parcel of Belize's culture.

Everybody has their own story or they've been shaped by their upbringing, and we have to love them for what that experience created.

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.

I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

But, at the end of the day, you live in the world with billions of people, and everyone has a unique upbringing and experience.

My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.