Quotes About Diversity

Saying, "I don't hate gay people - just their lifestyle" is the same as saying, "I don't hate black people - it's their skin that pisses me off."

This land is your land, this land is my land,From California to the New York island,From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters,This land was made for you and me.

How was I supposed to know Jesus was brown?" replied Private Daniels with labored breath, dodging mortar explosions. "Blame Caucasian society for that shit, not me! Sunday School told me he looked like bearded Ewan McGregor, not the reanimated corpse of Osama bin Laden floating through the fucking sky! I thought he was coming to get us and I panicked!

I was doing the LGBTQ version of a minstrel show.

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

In those clubs, I learned that everything my town had taught me about race was absolutely wrong. The memories of that time in my life on Auburn Avenue are great ones, and they're all mine.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

We are against the glorification of "the People," as we are against snobbery. It is not necessary to be an outcast bohemian, to be unkempt or poor, any more than it is necessary to be rich or handsome, to be an artist. Art is nothing to do with the coat you wear. A top-hat can well hold the Sixtine. A cheap cap could hide the image of Kephren.

You are creative, whoever you are. Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

I don't even consider myself an American. If you and I were Americans, there'd be no problem. Those Honkies that just got off the boat, they're already Americans; Polacks are already Americans; the Italian refugees are already Americans. Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

If we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as one family, there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being, or one human being living around and with another human being.

You should take [dogs] to hunt on different grounds at different times, in order that you may experience varieties in the chase, and that you yourself may become acquainted with the country.

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.

Yours is the face of a post-modern woman.

English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Just what are women, exactly? Should men be classed in the same species as women? Why are they so different? Books and films may say it is better to be a woman, but I cannot believe it. I have never felt it to be true, and I never will.

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minorities granted a crumb of political autonomy in exchange for providing an optical simulation of cultural diversity in their country of residence

Considering that less than 4 percent of the world's population are immigrants (living in a country they were not born in), the assumption that one's life chances are independent of one's country of origin is deceptive

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?