Quotes About Diversity

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.