Quotes About Diversity

People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.

I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't necessarily come and see a film like 'Weekend.'

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

My law clerks come from diverse backgrounds and points of view.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I don't have a math background - and how I use that to my advantage. They're what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you'll be fine, but you'll never be great.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

I always say I have two hearts - one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.

Both 'Saraswatichandra' and 'Mahakumbh' are extremely close to my heart. The shows are polar opposites and so are the characters but I have loved being a part of both of them.

'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

It is as polar opposite as it comes for the man who was Edna Turnblad in 'Hairspray' to come back as Sweeney Todd.

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

Forcing polarized groups into a swarm allows them to find the answer that most people are satisfied with.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why call it integration when black folks do the same thing? It's a con job.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.