Quotes About Diversity

We don't care how they do it in New York.

The phenomenon of play is local: that is, while the phenomenon of play is universal, the experience of play is intrinsically tied to location and culture.

I suppose," he thought, "it is not good for me to flower as the other plants. If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that. After all, one should not try to be so much like others, but to be the very best of one's own sort.

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

and certainly unchristian, to hate someone for the color of his skin, yet such trivial things can change the pattern of a life.

Inferior people often despise those who are different," Adam said calmly. "It's the only way they can feel superior.

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.

Jane Austen never repeats herself.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.

We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.

I know it's wrong to generalize, but some cultures encourage certain traits, and the ones the iMozani'i culture promotes are ones I happen to like, so I felt right at home from the word go.

Spies? Foreigners? Egyptians? Romans? Persians?

Lo conoces? ?dijo Reg. ?No. Me he equivocado. ?Yo diría que es un marica total.

One exercises to be a whole man, not a creature bred like a plough-ox to do one thing.

He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

Each of us shines in a different way, but this doesn't make our light less bright. —Albert Einstein

There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).

Marybeth Gasman