Quotes About Diversity

Years ago, when I was making music, I was sending it off to radio stations and getting told it was 'too urban.' But what else am I supposed to make?

I am very passionate, and I grew up in an incredibly beautiful urban community - the city of Detroit - born and raised.

It's only in acting where I've heard in auditions, 'Can you black it up a little bit? Can you make her a little bit more urban?' And it's just like, 'What?' I don't even know the word for that.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people.

I've hardly ever played urban characters.

I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.

When I do music I don't think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.

We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no longer just an American thing, either. It's a universal thing.

Though 'KK' is an urban film and has more scope for fast-paced numbers, I've made sure that there's a bit of melody in all the songs.

Probably I look different in different get-ups, so I can pass off as an urban and rural character, hopefully with the same kind of conviction.

I feel like I don't fit in. There's not a lot of outlets for urban music, for black artists who don't have that crossover thing going early on.

I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.

There are not many girls doing reggaeton or urban music in the Latin music industry.

The Latin urban genre is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Even when I meet people, they start talking to me in Telugu, even though I'm a Kannadiga. But my character in Hello Guru Prema Kosame' will change that image of mine. You'll see me as an urban city girl in glamorous clothes.

They say country music stands for more than the rural life. It's about life, period, whether lived in a high-rise or a hollow. I don't think rural or urban has that much to do with it.

One of my main goals, even when I first arrived in NXT/WWE, was to bring as many eyes to the product as possible and bring more eyes in the urban market, the hip-hop market.

When you say rap or Hip Hop, people expect it to be just urban or black. And I don't really feel like you should really put a face on it.

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

Our schools face immense pressures caused by the different needs and languages of children from immigrant families, particularly in urban areas.

Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those watching the same film in suburban areas.