Quotes About Diversity

Our ape legs make us great generalists - we can walk, run and climb. But when you try to do too many things at once, you can end up with problems.

I want to make music for everyone. I'm not trying to start a super exclusive group. I don't want a clique of people where you have to wear a certain type of clothes to come to our shows, or you have to be the ages of this and this.

I was definitely a part of a clique, and we all had our friend groups, but I tried really hard to branch out and be friends with a lot of people.

I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

I always wanted to be me and not a Lahm clone or Lahm the second.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Nanda and I were very different individuals, quite the study in contrasts. But we were very close friends. Or maybe we were close friends because we were so different.

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.

I don't see why people are so concerned at what other people do behind closed doors or in their lives.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

I know that people are going to recognize my voice as being different and they are going to be saying, 'Let me listen a little bit closer to see if she says something that I don't agree with.' They're probably going to pay a little bit more attention.

All my closest friends are gay. All of them.

I don't have anything against homosexuals, but 'Cigano' needs to get out of the closet.

I didn't want to stay in the closet to get work. I wanted to be out whether it affected my career or not.

It can be very hard to find clothing for different body shapes. After all, there are only, what, five companies for plus-size women?

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

I feel like there's not enough clothing out there to show our personality and just to be comfortable and to be fashion-forward and to be a trendsetter. There are a lot of clothes out there for the straight-size woman to be able to show that, but in the plus-size industry, I don't feel like it's there just yet.

I feel like people in the industry are scared to take that chance because it's not easy to design plus-size clothing.

I see different artists making clothing lines and people respected it.

I don't only wear men's clothing - I actually have more women's clothing than I do men's.

No one should be gatekeeping clothing of any kind.

I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.