Quotes About Diversity

I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

'Ki And Ka' in a very sweet way says that if you have talent, then gender doesn't matter.

For the first six years of my career, I was relegated to those girl-next-door, sweet, cheerleader kind of roles, and it was really frustrating for me because you don't have to do much acting.

I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.

I want to do different things. I don't want to be stuck in the 'sweet girl' box. I don't want to be stuck in the 'Oh, she is so glamorous' box.

Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.

I'm not like a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart. I'm just America's sweetheart, and I'm just an icon.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

I like Los Angeles. I've been able to do a lot there - swim, ski, go riding. But California isn't very stimulating.

I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.

All my black friends can't swim. Is that bad?

I didn't just swim when I was younger. I did ballet, horse riding, everything. I was very active.

I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.

Social groups in society don't swim about in some kind of harmonious melting pot. We rub against each other from very different and opposing positions, so why we should agree about language use and the means of describing it is beyond me.

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathematics, the sciences, pottery, swimming - had to be conducted in a language I hardly knew and that was neither spoken in the streets nor at home.

Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.