Quotes About Diversity

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

It's really empowering when you see yourself represented in entertainment and, especially, onstage when you're talking about how this country came to be.

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

When Kehlani brought me out onstage, I really enjoyed that. I was just appreciative for her to think of me and bring me out woman to woman, introducing me to a whole new audience to me. It was just showing that I was appreciated for what I'm doing, that some people mess with me, and I'm all over the place.

I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

There's a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

If you're anything other than a white, cisgender, able-bodied dude, people are going to project narratives, imagery, and context onto you that you might not necessarily see for yourself.

I don't force anything onto other people, because you'll never get a good satanist out of forcing somebody to be one.

I got paid the same as my male counterpart grad students and onward.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

I'm really open to everything.

I'm pretty open. I like doing different things.

I'm very open to making films anywhere in the world.

I loved Hackney because they embraced me really, like with open arms.