Quotes About Diversity

Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Fortunately, in real life, we are not in danger of these bizarre extremes unless we consciously work our way into them. I can see no situation in which I will be presented with a Draconic choice between reading books and watching movies; or between English and Igbo. For me, no either/or; I insist on both. Which, you might say, makes my life rather difficult and even a little untidy. But I prefer it that way.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

If you don't like my story,write your own

The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

A very small percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

Among Fortune 500 CEOs, there are more men named James than there are women.

It's like Tolstoy's quote: "All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." All

Dear Anju, for whom love means that we must want the same thing, always. That we must be the same. She has not yet learned that ultimately each person - even Anjali and Basudha - is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone.

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature -- and not just "Things Fall Apart," because that would be like saying, "I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America."

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

Talent is not universal but it is widely spread: Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge.

Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what its told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.

We are entering an era of unprecedented choice. And thats a good thing.

Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice.