Quotes About Diversity

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding ' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves—one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck.

Multidisciplinary is just us applying a fractured mentality onto something that's actually whole.

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

Foreigners have become people everywhere.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

misliti u slikama i opajati se mnogolikom izmjenljivoš?u slika.

?ovjek i nije drugo nego posuda puna tu?ih ukusa i užitaka!

Stolje?a mogu da žive jedno uz drugo stolje?ima, kao dvije strane rase u kavezu: majmuni i papige!

Ljudi ?itaju kako ho?e (da ?itaju), a ne kako je napisano." (Zapisi iz godine 1933, Djetinjstvo 1902-03 i drugi zapisi, str. 286.; Sabrana djela Miroslava Krleže, sv. 27, Zora, Zagreb, 1972.)

Dajte nam tisu?u ljudi, tisu?u karaktera!

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

The world makes you, and then you see it through the eyes it gives you. Another man sees the same world, but he doesn't have the same eyes.

My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. But it's as if the darkness of it keeps Ma from noticing my assets: curly hair, a round face that makes babies smile, deep dimples in both cheeks, big eyes that notice details other people miss. I like my face, even if Ma doesn't. I resemble Baba, and he's got presence.

Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not.

A muddy river is a muddy river, whether it's in Bengal or in Baton Rouge.