Quotes About Diversity

Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.

A lot people I know - it drives them crazy when they're watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there's something that's very inclusive about it.

If there's a Filipino flag waving, will.i.am whispers to me, 'Filipinos are over there!' And then I wave towards that direction.

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.

I still remember the time when I visited the wax museum in London. While there were statues of many sports personalities, including that of Sachin Tendulkar, I didn't see a wax figure of any hockey player. I was a little disappointed at that time, and I hoped that one day, at least in India, someone would make a wax statue of a hockey player.

When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

Way I see it, everyone plays their own role in the world, and no role is more important than the other.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.

I've got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I'm offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.

The liberalism I was taught was you're supposed to accept everyone. Why shouldn't the people in Fort Wayne, Ind., get their side on NBC News?

I listened to a lot of Jamaican vibes growing up. A lot of Bob Marley, Shabba Ranks, but also, Lil Wayne and Tupac.

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.