Quotes About Diversity

There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

I would love to do a podcast because I've done so many of them, guesting on them. Plus, anything goes, which I love.

I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'

If we can continue to tell stories where fans don't know what will happen next, I think that will be a plus in this 'Divas Revolution.'

Fat is fat. This goes back to the word 'plus.' We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.

When companies are jumping on the bandwagon to do plus size, they limit themselves.

I have done 200 plus films in other languages.

Casting plus size girls needs to be genuine.

The majority of my following is not plus size, it's very diverse.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

Men were created to have facial hair like women were created to be smooth-faced. Well, not all women. I've seen pockets where that's not the case, and that's not good.

Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

Different parts of Ireland have different alliances, because you have little pockets where counties are good at hurling, and different counties are good at football.

There are different pockets of the rural U.S. and each one of those has their own colour, their own language, the things they're worried about. They're so different.

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.