Quotes About Diversity

I'm a huge advocate for individuals with disabilities.

I'm always a big advocate for adapting to your new team, your new country and your new team-mates.

My aesthetic is very black.

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?

A lot of us just want to lead normal, regular lives. I want to go in for a role and if I can play that part, my trans identity shouldn't affect me.

From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

I love Africa.

I'm an African American.

I am not an African. I am an American.

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

Even though I'm an African-American woman, it's not different from any other Bachelorette.

Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.