Quotes About Diversity

If people don't connect to Eric Carter's struggles, I'm sure they'll find a character in this series to connect to. That's ultimately what it's about for me.

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

Being on 'Pose' for me has now allowed me to realize how important my culture is. It's made me realize how important the struggles that everyone has gone through are, and now we are able to tell that story.

The Oscars has its own struggles with the way the Academy is set up.

Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.

It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.

Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. For all Americans together.

I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.

After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful.

Everyone has their own opinions, and they're entitled to them.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

We just have to get over the fact that, yes, people are not going to be the same. They're not going to look the same, they're not going to have the same opinions because we're all unique.

There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

People who are for diversity of thought, actually, are okay with hearing some opinions that they don't like. I quite literally see none of that on the Left.

The Left sees no place for differing opinions.