Quotes About Diversity

When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

If I can work with Shyam Benegal and Yash Chopra together, who are the kings of art house and commercial cinema and win awards for both of them then it means I have placed myself everywhere.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

I've been things and seen places.

Vadodara is a lovely city and Gujarat has always been one of the most peaceful places in the country. I love everything about Gujarat and can't resist the Gujarati thali.

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

I competed in different places all over the world. I represented my country in the Pan-American championships.

I get inspired from all different kinds of places - cartoons, comic books, movies and things like that.

My first memories are of Brazil. There's so much music there. It's one of my favourite places in the world.

I just really like performing for different crowds and seeing different places.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

As a child who lived in a lot of places, one of the hardest things for me was to join a new community. It was hardest at the kibbutz, but that was also one of the most impressive communities.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

We had a bunch of 'we's - a fitness concept, a restaurant concept. The first business plan we had included all of them.

Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would walk to the front of the plane and say, 'You're looking for me. Just take me; it will be easier for everybody else.

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.