Quotes About Diversity

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.

And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon

He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

Mom's Israeli. Dad's Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department

I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.

We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.

Cooking is a language through which all cultures speak.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?

A veces el usa lenguaje de surfista californiano igual que todo el mundo aquí, y otras veces parece que ha salido de las páginas de Cumbres Borrascosas. —No. No me has contrariado, — yo le digo riéndome.

We can agree that all humans are born in complete wonder, and that they don't have to prove or perform in order to earn acceptance or love. We can reject the notion of "good, better and best" people. If we don't, we're creating conditions that will see the rise of another Hitler. Who dares decide who is "better" than others?

Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.

There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples.

On n'est pas le même selon qu'on a mangé du boudin ou du caviar; on n'est pas le même non plus selon qu'on vient de lire du Kant […] ou du Queneau.

Él me escuchaba como si le estuviera contando las cosas más extrañas. La ventaja de las conversaciones con extranjeros es que siempre podemos atribuir la expresión más o menos consternada de nuestro interlocutor a la diferencia cultural.

odiosos. Tengo una amiga que se ha casado con un japonés. Tiene dos hijos, seis y cuatro años. Llaman a su madre pipí y a su padre caca.  Me reí.

No se trata aquí de establecer una jerarquía entre los pueblos. Al contrario. Se trata de mostrar que el hambre es su mayor seña de identidad. A los países que nos dan la lata con el carácter supuestamente único de su población, hay que decirles que toda nación es una ecuación que se articula alrededor del hambre.".

But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

You see, in a family everyone is not alike, someone may be a weakling. Now, as head of the family, it is natural for you to focus greater attention on the weaker member so that he can be brought at par with the others, isn't it? But that does not mean I am sidelining the others.