Quotes About Diversity

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Accomplishments have no color.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.

If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.