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Quotes About Diversity

Yes, Jason Grace. Favonius arched an eyebrow. I fell in love with a dude . Does that shock you?
~ Rick Riordan
Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know.
~ Rick Riordan
Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys. Just most waking hours?
~ Rick Riordan
Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?
~ Rick Riordan
But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.
~ Rick Riordan
you have to flaunt the weird, my friends.
~ Rick Riordan
You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!
~ Rick Riordan
I'll admit that I was staring. Suddenly my whole perspective had flipped inside out, like when you look at an inkblot picture and see just the black part. Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed. That was Alex Fierro, except in pink and green. A second ago, he had been very obviously a boy to me. Now she was very obviously a girl.
~ Rick Riordan
So can I ask…?" I waved my hands vaguely. I didn't have the words. "How it does work?" She smirked. "As long as you don't ask me to represent every gender-fluid person for you, okay? I'm not an ambassador. I'm not a teacher or a poster child. I'm just"—she mimicked my hand-waving—" me . Trying to be me as best I can.
~ Rick Riordan
One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. "You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?
~ Rick Riordan
Bow and quiver coming up, Nico said. And ukelele, Will added. Nico winced. Do we really hate Python that much? Will raised an eyebrow.
~ Rick Riordan
Most of the time, Alex identified as female, but today he was definitely male. Sometimes I slipped up and used the wrong pronouns for him/ her, so Alex liked to return the favor by teasing me mercilessly. Because friendship.
~ Rick Riordan
I Need to Learn Many, Many More Cusswords in Sign Language
~ Rick Riordan
Respect the gender.
~ Rick Riordan
It seemed strange, the Muslim Maghrib prayer aboard a Viking ship full of atheists and pagans. Then again, Samirah's ancestors had been dealing with Vikings since the Middle Ages. I doubted this was the first time prayers to Allah had been said aboard a longship. The world, the worlds , were a lot more interesting because of constant intermixing.
~ Rick Riordan
We passed through a supermarket, a clothing boutique with the latest in Viking fashions, and an IKEA outlet (naturally).
~ Rick Riordan
Rainbows, very macho -Leo
~ Rick Riordan
Six in 10 Brits call themselves Christian (half of those are Anglican), but in any given week, more Londoners visit a mosque than an Anglican church.
~ Rick Steves
While we may all have different wattage in our light bulbs, we all bring light to our communities.
~ Rick Steves
A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.
~ Rick Warren
Gary wondered, 'If God intentionally made us all different, why should everyone be expected to love God in the same way?
~ Rick Warren
God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.
~ Rick Warren
Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold—large, male and American.
~ Kate Atkinson
a birthmark the shape of Africa.
~ Kate Atkinson