Quotes About Diversity

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.