Quotes About Diversity

I don't change anything for someone unless I know they don't eat something. I don't create dishes that only celebs or friends would get. There's a democracy to the food that goes out in all my restaurants.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

qué bueno que tengas el valor de ser distinto y no sucumbas al poder unánime

Cada cuerpo tiene su armonía y su desarmonía. En algunos casos la suma de armonías puede ser casi empalagosa. En otros el conjunto de desarmonías produce algo mejor que la belleza.

cada ciudad puede ser tantas como amores la recorren.

A mis traductores, que han tenido la paciencia y el arte de reconstruir el habla y los silencios de mis montevideanos en más de veinte lenguas. (La borra del café)

Blondes are the girlfriend, brunete is the femme fatale, but the heroine, she's the redheaded girl.

Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

No redheads, though, are plain.

All is one and all is different.

I lost track of where I ended and the city began, and after a few blocks, I'd have stretched to include the flower stand, the guy selling "designer" handbags on the corner, the skyscrapers' shining geometry, the scent of roasting nuts, the café with its bowl of green apples in the window, and the two gorgeous shopgirls on break, flamingolike and sucking on cigarettes outside their fancy boutique, eyes closed, rapturous, as though to smoke were very heaven.

For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and she realized that no matter where she went in the world, she would have a point of view that no one else could possibly have.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Maar selfs in ons andersgeit soek ons ander mense wat op min of meer dieselfde manier as ons anders is. Ons bly nou eenmaal kuddediere.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don't see things the way you do. And don't jump all over them every time they do or say something you don't agree with-even when it seems that they are strong on opinions but weak in the faith department. Remember, they have their own history to deal with. Treat them gently. (Romans 14:1, MSG)

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.