Quotes About Diversity

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

There are lots of different people who use food banks - from young parents to older people.

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.

It seems that the ideal age for a Bollywood heroine is 24, which is great, but it would be nice to see some older women too on the big screen.

It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.

I'm absolutely certain that audiences want to see older women on their TVs.

It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

Britain today is not revolutionary France. There are no grades of citizenship. An immigrant who has just shaken hands at the end of their citizenship ceremony is as British as a member of the oldest family in the land.

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

My heritage is really important to me. I've always had that olive complexion and the squished nose, and I just think it's important to do the best I can to be a good role model.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men. All white middleflclass men.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.