Quotes About Diversity

Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?

I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40 to alternative. There's a lot of good music out there. Every now and then, I'll flip through VH1 and watch the videos... the only thing I really don't listen to is country.

Whether you're old or young or white or black or however, funny is funny, and people want to see those videos.

My community grew on social media because I don't exclude anybody from any walk of life. The videos that I create are seen throughout the world and are funny no matter what language you speak.

I've done hip-hop videos, family comedies, a quirky comedy.

I was never seen with one girl in a video, right? My videos always had many girls.

There's a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.

I have looked at videos of many great champions like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Frazier, who each had special qualities. I never say one particular fighter is the best ever because each has a special unique style of fighting.

Oh first, let me tell you how amazed I am by the wealth of talents in the Philippines. I remember watching a lot of home videos about Filipino artists, and they are really very talented. That really motivated me to always do my best and to stay inspired.

There's different reasons to be proud of different projects, so I'm more proud of certain videos because of what we were able to accomplish within them.

You know, I don't sit here and watch, uh, I don't watch CMT videos and listen to country radio all the time.

I hear from people all the time from all sides of the aisle, and I hear from people strangely enough who say, 'I don't agree with you politically... But I love your videos. They make me laugh.'

I just feel like my audience is interested in anything that I do. Dare I say, even when I was making my science experiment videos, they lived for that.

I always prioritize dark-skinned women when I'm casting my music videos. I just believe that we deserve to be front and center. I never like to make the girls I choose look like backup.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.

Normally, I try to get my haircut when I'm in a developing country. Last time, it was in Vietnam.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

It's because films like 'Selma' are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don't have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, 'Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?'

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

I've been to all these places all over the world: Portugal, Vietnam, you name it.

In the 1970s, we got a Labor government that put more emphasis on trade with Asia; the Vietnam war ended, and refugees were coming in. We were more part of Asia than America and the rest of the world. There was the proximity, for a start - all these countries and cultures just north of us. It just made sense that that's what we were part of.