Quotes About Diversity

My songs never really reach the ears of white America.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.

I've always been able to look very different very easily.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want to hear it.

I never want people to say, 'Oh, another Eddie Rabbitt record.' Each has to have a little different approach than the others.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

Being biracial and being around my White family, I have to educate them.

I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

I'm very happy being big and effeminate.

While I'm out of drag, I'm still extremely effeminate.

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.

I really believe in being egalitarian.

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

I have friends growing up in Egypt. I have friends in England. And they just can't believe that what I used to say, it used to be almost like a joke. I used to say I'll be in the NBA one day.

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.

While WHO has never had a director from Africa, no one should elect me because I am from Africa.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

I was born in India... Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

The beauty of American elections is that anything can happen.

The challenge of the Republican Party is, if we're going to start winning national elections, we've got to get along as all kinds of Republicans.

I never like something too live or too electronic. I'll take a bit of both.