Quotes About Diversity

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.

I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.

Here in Brazil, homophobia is everywhere. If Brazil looked up to good things that other countries do, it would become a better place. I'm not talking about homosexuals only, but for everything else.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.

I dreamed of being an NHLer the first day I played. Sometimes the other kids would say there are not many black players in the N.H.L. So I really followed as many black players as I could.

I wanted to stand out from the other kids who had gone to Eton.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.