Quotes About Diversity

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.