Quotes About Diversity

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.

Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

If you're not a flaming Filipino dancing queen, they never, ever expect the Asian guy to be asking about gay sex. They always figure you want to talk about math. Or the violin.

We're not gay. We're eight.

Me asombra lo aleatorio, lo cómico y la fe que nos une a todos y nos hace seguir adelante.

A mismatch is the only kind of match that's worth making.

We didn't have much in common, but I thought that being gay in common would be enough.

The minute you stop talking about individuals and start talking about a group, your judgment has a flaw in it.

was immer dich zu dem menschen macht, der du bist - es gefällt mir.<<

People are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like a protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

There was never that big a disturbance," she tells me. "I didn't think of myself as a boy or a girl—I never have. I would just think of myself as a boy or a girl for a day. It was like a different set of clothes.

People called them freaks not because they were identical but because they were so damn happy.

Os gays de hoje, os gays de ontem, somos todos o mesmo incômodo, o mesmo pessoas. Não pessoas, na verdade. Só uma coisa sobre a qual gritar.

Why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person?

Every day I am someone else. I am myself- I know I am myself- but I am also someone else

And what is a girl without curves if not, well, a boy?

As pessoas gostam de dizer que ser gay não é como a cor da pele, não é uma coisa física. Elas dizem que sempre temos a opção de esconder. Mas, se isso for verdade, como é que eles sempre nos descobrem?

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, an most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Question: On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?- David: You are just asking me this because I am gay... What the fuck does that mean? -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con-

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.

La belleza no se halla repartida de forma democrática.