Quotes About Diversity

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

Thomas Sowell once wrote, "Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The black flag comes in many colors.

I was reminded of the words of Harlem renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal

We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.

Back then the population was 83% white; today the exact opposite is true.

Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

mixture produced the Islam that would need constant protection from mixture.

You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black families, Jewish babies get born into Jewish families, but gay babies, we get born into straight families. How we survive it all is a miracle.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Take your hallowed halls of Congress or the littered floor of the Stock Exchange, America is built on its pancake houses!

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory .

Even the humblest of beings contains within himself a universe of infinite diversity and wonder. Therefore, when you give aid and comfort to just one being, you are, for that moment, the deity of an entire cosmos.

Although Brazil never practised the racial segregation that marred the United States or South Africa, many of the poor in today's Brazil are of darker skin than the better-off.

Sharing meals together forced us to figure out how to be the body of Christ reconciled across racial, ethnic, and class lines.

if you want to create the kingdom potluck at the margins, you must relentlessly pursue the sort of community that makes it possible for the marginalized to "bring a plate.

You may not be able to imagine what it means to see upper-middle-class Indians wearing traditional African shirts and black Kenyans wearing Indian saris as they circled up to share the Lord's Supper together. And I'm confident you cannot imagine the food.

for a variety of reasons, US citizens are increasingly likely to live in all-poor or all-rich neighborhoods and much less likely to live in communities where they would ever even have the chance of becoming friends with someone from a different class.