Quotes About Diversity

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

But if we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues.

I have friends from China - by the way I love China. I love Japan. I have people that buy my apartments, I have people that work for me from China.

The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.