Quotes About Diversity

The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.

All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the border.

In Italy, my wife and I always said we feel like strangers because there's maybe only a couple other people from other parts of the world. Here in Chicago, there's millions of people from Poland, thousands from Japan, hundreds from Croatia. We like it here.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.

Much of what we think of as cultural differences turn out to be differences in income.

Bij het ontdekken van die verschillen zeiden ze 'ah,ja,' met een toon van vergeving - er konden nu eenmaal niet alleen maar overeenkomsten zijn.

My third lekku set me aside, even among the Twi'lek community on Kalimahr. It invited ridicule. You wouldn't think that, would you? That in a society filled with so many shapes, species, and creeds, a simple extra something with set me apart? - Tre Sana

In Peep Show terms, Berlin is a city of Jeremys marooned in a nation of Marks. My

One takes great pleasure in seeing children acquire skills one does not have, seeing them become, thankfully, different from oneself.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.

We are a Team and we work hard together.We are all equal to each other.

He gestured at himself. "You see this, Bekah? This whole package here? It contains multitudes." "I knew you were full of something." "Iron

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I don't believe in that - the husband and wife having to be just alike. I think it's better if they kind of offset each other. Like if they have these different dimensions they can bring to each other.

Embrace the weird. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

Additional research tells us that lighter-skinned immigrants, mostly from European nations, earn around 15 percent more than darker-skinned immigrants, even when all their respective qualifications and markers of personal productivity are the same.

If we teach the truth about U.S. history and the way that Latino and Latina folk have been marginalized by white supremacy, they may end up hating us; so we must end such classes, and rewrite the textbooks used across the nation—as has been proposed in Texas and Tennessee by conservative activists masquerading as history scholars—so as to minimize the discussions of racism and injustice perpetrated against people of color.

No matter who was here first, whiteness and American identity have been joined at the hip for centuries; the sons and daughters of England, Ireland, Germany, Scotland and the like, have long been able to look in the mirror and see ourselves as the living embodiment of the American ideal. No matter their prior presence on these shores, the black, brown and red have forever and always had to lobby, petition, plead, scrape, fight and even die for the right to lay claim to that ideal as their own.

In high school, whites are sometimes asked to think about race, but rarely about whiteness.

if everything is entrusted to a single mind, its inevitable subjective distortions will distort, if not altogether disable, the innovation process.