Quotes About Diversity

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.

We're not going to change overnight that we have a majority of all white male leaders.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

I wanted to go overseas and act. I wanted to be an actor in an industry that isn't necessarily the most inclusive for anybody different.

I think going overseas and experiencing a whole new culture is something you can't learn anywhere else.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

I enjoy the company of overseas people. It's always good learning.

If I were to do something here in Australia that did travel overseas, for sure, I would like to work anywhere in the world.

You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we're really all in it together. You don't see borders from space, you don't see diversity and differences in people on Earth.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Homosexuals are thus drawn to certain grimy urban neighborhoods,

The key is to be quick and dirty—exploring a range of ideas without becoming too invested in only one.

More objective sources had told Hamilton that people with different diets will smell different, no matter their personal hygiene habits.

No atheists in foxholes, they say. I think that, given the power of the Holy Spirit as manifested in the Glenlivet distillery, there shall soon be only good Roman Catholics afloat. Well . . . and perhaps the odd Presbyterian. Now if only I can find something suitable to bless for the benefit of Sinbad

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

Eclecticisme voert de boventoon, zoals overal in België, van bouwstijl tot grondwet, van burgerlijk interieur tot moraal. De een noemt het anarchie, de ander liberalisme, een derde bric-à-brac.

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

For anthropologists, even the exotic's not exotic, let alone the everyday.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl