Quotes About Diversity

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

There is no color line in art.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.