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Quotes About Diversity

We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot
~ Cristina Henriquez
We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then? It
~ Cristina Henriquez
Profesora Shields explained that in English there was no usted, no tu. There was only one word—you. It applied to all people. Everyone equal. No one higher or lower than anyone else. No one more distant or more familiar. You. They. Me. I. Us. We. There were no words that changed from feminine to masculine and back again depending on the speaker. A person was from New York. Not a woman from New York, not a man from New York. Simply a person.
~ Cristina Henriquez
Nunca he pretendido que una sola idea explicara la diversidad del mundo ni un Dios fuera más cierto que numerosos dioses Nunca he pretendido que la psicología excluyera a la biología, ni que tener un sexo excluyera al otro.
~ Unknown
The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
~ Cristina Saralegui
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
~ Cullen Hightower
Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.
~ Unknown
For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.
~ Curtis Stone
Reconciliation is often assumed to mean white institutions adding or including persons of color but never transforming the central identity from white (and male) to a truly inclusive human identity.
~ Unknown
One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all creatures different for His own purposes. A horse was not a cat and a cat was not a dog, and only a fool would want them to be.
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.
~ Cynthia Heimel
Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.
~ Cynthia Leitich Smith
Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They're grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I'm splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer on the band, and across the tent, a young girl reading a paperback catches my eye. In that moment, I wish for more characters like those kids in the pages of children's books. This anthology is a fulfillment of that wish.
~ Cynthia Leitich Smith
I wasn't sure if we'd ever be the same kind of friends we'd been when we were little. Maybe being two peas in a pod was over, but maybe we could be more like two wild blueberries: two of a kind, but different, too." -Lily
~ Cynthia Lord
Different can be good. It makes you pay attention" -Dr. Katz
~ Cynthia Lord
I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself" -Salma
~ Cynthia Lord
The English," said MacWilliam, a trace of Highland accent appearing for once in his speech, "are not by and large an educated people.
~ Unknown
The Universal City will be realized when a son of the Kirghiz steppes waters his horses in the Loire, and a Sicilian peasant plants cotton in Turkmen valleys. Small wonder the writer smiles at propaganda that cries for a freeing of colonies from the grasp of imperialistic powers. Oh, how cunning dialectics can be, and how artfully it can accomplish its ends, degree by degree!
~ Czeslaw Milosz
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
~ Unknown
They had all seen her differently, thought Bel, but really and truly that was not as queer as it seemed, for of course human beings are composite mixtures of good and bad qualities and show entirely different aspects of their personalities to different people.
~ Unknown
no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death
~ D. H. Lawrence
And another thing," added Mademoiselle Bénet. "You must not make the mistake of saying to yourself, 'All French people are like that.' There are bad people and good people in my country – as there are in every country under the sun.
~ D.E. Stevenson
It's double Dutch," declared the man in the check cap. " That's what it is." " Sounds like Danish to me," said the man in evening dress. " He looks like a Dane, too." " He's a Scot," I said, laughing. " So am I. He's offering me a lift home to Scotland, and I'd give my ears to take him at his word.
~ D.E. Stevenson
God likes boys better than girls, doesn't He?" asked Anne suddenly. "No," replied Mr. Orme. The question startled him — in fact it horrified him — but he answered it quite quietly. "No," he repeated. "Certainly not." "I thought He did," said Anne. "Boys are more important, aren't they?" "No, we are all of equal importance in the sight of God. He loves us all.
~ D.E. Stevenson