Quotes About Diversity

There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.

Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

All literature is political.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I want to do a little bit of everything and really just experience life.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

Being a little kid, you don't hear much about racism. You figure everybody's the same. If racism isn't taught, you're just a black kid and a white kid together.

There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.

Little people are rad.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

When I am out in Liverpool, the fans come up and talk to me. But I cannot take in everything they say because I don't understand all of it.

I listen to loads of different music all the time.

People balk at the fact that I've played loads of gay characters. Maybe I have, but you know what? It doesn't matter.

For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest than anything else. She made sure that we just read loads of books about slavery, about black culture, about black history but I don't think everyone would have had that obviously.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I don't lock into one type of exercise.

I'm not locked into playing one guy.

I think I fit into any type of system because I don't really have a certain position. Sometimes people try and label me, but I don't look at myself as being locked into one position.