Quotes About Diversity

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

I'm ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, 'Deaf people can dance.'

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

Most of us have this story of not feeling comfortable because of how you were. Now they call it ADHD. I just knew I bounced all over the place. I'm glad I had ADHD... It's what makes us creative.

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things, so it is frustrating, to a degree, to be limited by other people's perceptions of me, but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy, and, you know, it's like I'm rooted in but not bound by.

I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing.

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell.

I feel really blessed to work in a place that values me for what I bring as a journalist and as a professional storyteller and navigator of the news. But I also know that they appreciate about me, my perspective as a woman, as a black woman.