Quotes About Diversity

What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?" "Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.

As computing became a highly paid profession, women were also edged out. It was the result of deliberate choices.

I was one of six undergraduate women majoring in computer science at a university of twenty thousand

I've frequently been told things like: "Girl, you've been hanging out with too many white folk" ; "What do you have to be depressed about? If our people could make it through slavery, we can make it through anything" ; "Take your troubles to Jesus, not no damn psychiatrist.

Each homosexual must, of course, come out at his own time and in his own way, but homosexuals, the older as well as the younger, the ones in Brooks Brothers suits as well as those in black turtleneck sweaters have, I think, an obligation to declare themselves whenever they decently can.

everybody was a lady—the fish lady, the yam lady, the store lady, the teacher lady'.6 She noticed, however, many instances of self-contempt. 'When I was a child,' she said, 'nearly everything about us was bad, you know; they would tell yuh seh yuh have bad hair, that black people bad… and that the language yuh talk was bad. And I know that a lot of people I knew were not bad at all, they were nice people and they talked this language.'7

But—what if other women decide they want to do what he did? Just stop being women and become men instead? There will be an epidemic. Everyone will want to be a man." I was very quiet. She had just revealed a lot about how she felt as a Mormon woman.

O senhor não tem cor, Doutor. As pessoas não têm cores. Ou têm cores que não têm nome.

Existe dois tipos de pretos: os calçados e os pretos.

Eu já me estou a desmulatar. (...) Eu estou é a ficar branco de língua, deve ser porque só falo português....

Nadie es una persona si no es la humanidad entera. REFRÁN DE NKOKOLANI

Às vezes, as línguas fazem-nos ser.

On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

Não gosto de pretos, Kindzu. - Como? Então gosta de quem? Dos brancos? - Também não. - Já sei: gosta de indianos, gosta da sua raça. - Não. Eu gosto de homens que não tem raça. É por isso que eu gosto de si, Kindzu.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... We were just like you".

How can educators start to learn more about the home worlds of their actual students rather than learning generic information about the "groups" from which students come?

In a small group the dynamics are like those on a good basketball team," Kay observed. "Everybody has to be able to play the whole game. Each person should have certain things they're better at than the others, but everyone should be pretty good at everything.

Taking control of a ship operated by those bumpy-headed savages

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.

There is no such thing as an Asian market. There is not even a singular Chinese market. The degree of adaptation will depend on your product and where in Asia you hope to sell it.

Because Afro-Bahians have refused to give up their heritage, cultural and religious pluralism has managed to prevail over acculturation to European norms.

a continuum of beliefs and lifestyles, ranging from religious fundamentalists on one end to antireligious individualists on the other.

In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people's shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.