Quotes About Diversity

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

New York City is one of the best cities in the world for walking: it's virtually impossible to get lost.

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop.

I've now done virtually everything there is to do in TV presenting: I've done sport shows, comedy shows, and I'm now doing music, which is great for me.

The Immigration Act of 1924 closed our doors to virtually all non-European immigrants - a great wrong that was not rectified for decades.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

By virtue of being a half Punjabi and half Sikh, tandoori chicken was my staple diet.

In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

When the world is telling us, 'We hate you because you're Asian, we hate you because we think you brought this virus to the world'... we need to kind of meet that with an equal and opposing force.