Quotes About Diversity

I don't care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.

When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store - now there's a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that's very different from the way it used to be.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all of our crap from. It's possible to imagine a world in which there's actually competition.

When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums and independent record stores.

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there's nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?

No two of our stores are the same.

I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know was at that time, if you were a Chinese-American, even department stores wouldn't hire you. They'd come right out and say, 'We don't hire Orientals.'

We are going to do extensive market research because it is hard for black women to go into stores and get clothes that fit the way they should.

Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.

Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.

I love stories about women.

That's the primary mission of ours: to protect the border, enhance the border, and capitalize on what the border has to offer. It's the source of jobs, source of positive immigration stories.

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.

I don't like it when religions take it to the point where they discredit all other religions, because how could one sector of people have figured it out and know that that's it? But I do think that there's so much beauty in a lot of the stories or scriptures.

We Filipinos bond over food, music, dance, and shares stories. And to Filipinos, no matter who you are and where you come from, you always have an invitation to celebration.

I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.