Quotes About Diversity

Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.

frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

What if the only non-humans the two-legs know," she mused, "are the Cousin-kind? How stupid they would believe all others who walk the earth to be!

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

In complete darkness, we are all the same. It is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us. Don't let your eyes deceive you.

We want to recast the debate shifting from arguments over origins (is homosexuality 'in born' or 'chosen'?)...In our view, it does not matter how one becomes homosexual, because there is nothing wrong with homosexuality... We believe that the freedom to be different and act differently should not depend on whether or not an individual is 'born that way.

You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson."How do you manage?

there is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom

All right, Spock, I'll bite: why would she take up saber, quarterstaff and eating with chopsticks?" "To extend her reach.

That is --- we think differently, we now and then see things differently...--- Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.---

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Luck, I was starting to realize, comes in many flavors." -Emma

Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

If immigration and diversity bring cultural enrichment, why do whites move out of those very parts of the country that are being "enriched"?

The alleged benefits of diversity seem illusory to the people who actually experience it.