Quotes About Diversity

Cooper had a theory about personality. Most people considered personality to be a singular identity. Malleable, sure, but essentially cohesive. But he tended to see people as more of a chorus. Every stage in life added a voice to that chorus. The different iterations of himself—lonely military brat, cocky teenager, faithful soldier, young husband, dedicated father, relentless hunter—they all existed within him.

everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

It's the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad.

Reminded you that everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

beginning. Not just in Chicago

A small minority of human beings now possesses a massive advantage. How can men and women on both sides of this divide live together, work together, form a single, more perfect union?

I spent so much of my life on the outside that I began to doubt that I would ever truly be in with any one people, any one place, and one tribe. But Harlem is big enough, diverse enough, scrappy enough, old enough, and new enough to encompass all that I am and all that I hope to be. After all that traveling, I am, at last, home.

His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.

I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

It continues to startle me, the range of political ideologies that are compatible with enthusiasm for spaceflight. Tax-and-spend liberals of the Great Society stripe, obviously—but also spending-slashing Tea Partiers, hippie peaceniks, fierce libertarians, military loyalists, and apathetics of every shade. So very many of us seem to feel that a love of human spaceflight is reconcilable with our beliefs, and we can all explain why.