Quotes About Diversity

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

The brave find a home in every land.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.