Quotes About Diversity

In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

I am a strong woman and I do believe in certain things, but again, that's what's so great about our country - everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

I've always - from my very first film, 'Shopping,' which was Jude Law and Sadie Frost, I mean, I've always liked strong women characters in films.

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

I'm far more drawn to performances by strong women than I am to men.

We believe our diversity makes us stronger, smarter, and more innovative, helping us better serve the needs of our clients, our people, and our communities.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.

Together, we will continue to build a stronger, more inclusive community, and send a strong message to those who spread hate: there is no room for prejudice in our neighborhoods.

I show women growing, changing, becoming stronger in many kinds of situations.

Our nation, our economy, and our families would be much stronger if half of our companies were run by women and half of our households were run by men.

We should be talking about celebrating our differences, understanding that those differences make us richer and stronger.

We're reminded yet again: we are stronger, we are smarter, we have more fun when we include each other - when we include as many perspectives as possible.

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

People forget that the more we know about the world - about people, cultures, and about life - the stronger we are as actors because the more we can bring to our characters.

I think being biracial is a different experience. I think that, and coming from the U.K., I feel as much white as I do black. And so it's really important for me to address these issues of identity in my work. But also, you know, we're always stronger when we work on, you know, what we have in common. And I love exploring that in my work.