Quotes About Diversity

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both. They're just different modes of expression.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Strangely, or maybe not so strangely, a lot of the roles that I am offered are of Muslim characters, maybe because I looked a certain way in 'Neerja.' But I am actually Parsi.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.

Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.

For me, Will being gay or not is besides the point. 'Stranger Things' is a show about a bunch of kids who are outsiders and find each other because they have been bullied in some way or are different.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'