Quotes About Diversity

This ignorance of the lives of others is what allows gentrification to happen. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts points out in her book Harlem Is Nowhere that whenever a neighborhood gentrifies, you hear white people and the media using phrases such as "People are starting to move to that neighborhood," or "No one used to go there, but that's changing." The implication is that before these places gentrified, no one lived there, or at least no one of importance.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live

There are all sorts of restaurants in London—from the restaurant which makes you fancy you are in Paris to the restaurant which makes you wish you were.

One of the many things Mike could never understand in Psmith was his fondness for getting into atmospheres that were not his own. He would go out of his way to do this. Mike, like most boys of his age, was never really happy and at his ease except in the presence of those of his own years and class. Psmith, on the contrary, seemed to be bored by them, and infinitely preferred talking to somebody who lived in quite another world.

We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence.

Quiero vivir en un mundo en el que los seres sean solamente humanos, sin darse en la cabeza con una regla, con una palabr, con una etiqueta... Quiero que la gran mayoría, la única mayoría, todos, puedan hablar, leer, escuchar, florecer. No entendí nunca la lucha sino para que ésta termine.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

Blandt mennesker er der langt flere kopier end originaler.

The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.

Because just as everybody is not meant to be a size 4, we all are meant to be different sizes at different times in our lives we are meant to eat different things at different moments. our needs shift as life shifts.

Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.

And believing in choice meant you supported it whether someone's choice conformed to your personal beliefs or not.

It's useless to obsess over one standard of beauty, since it can change as soon as you cross a border. My travels have taught me this: The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay?

Forget you were born a Hindu, and don't be an American. Take the best of them both

Alike in soul though diverse in outer experience, neither West nor East will flourish if some form of disciplinary yoga be not practiced.

Dios no hace ciertamente distinción alguna entre lo importante y lo no importante, no vaya a ser que, por falta de un alfiler, ¡El cosmos se derrumbre!

All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit's creative vibratory activity

True sophistication is the ability to fit in anywhere, because you have a broad understanding of and respect for all kinds of people.

What we mean when we say that something is cultural is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing to say that people share a culture, as if culture were common property. We may have strictly identical amounts of money in our respective wallets without sharing any of it!

There is no human society without some musical tradition. Although the traditions are very different, some principles can be found everywhere.

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.