Quotes About Diversity

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Like nearly every other electoral subgroup in U.S. polling, 'Asian' is a label that masks the diversity among its peoples-perhaps even more than 'Hispanic' belies the significant variances between the cultures designated as such.

All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony.

Different films, different genres show the different things I do. It's nice because it brings different groups of people to following what I'm doing. So hopefully, it kind of reiterates that I'm not just a one-trick pony as well.

You cannot be a one-trick pony all the time. You have to grow your game.

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

I want my projects to be great, of course. The talent has to come from a diverse pool. Because that's the world we live in.

I would say, if you come out, they can't take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it's not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I'm judged for what I do in the diving pool.

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.

I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that whatever project is out there I probably have been asked to audition or I probably chose to not go in it for various aspects.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

There was no difference between the rich and poor people. No difference between people from the west and from the east. There was no dispute between the leaders of the Maidan. We can win only when we are united.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.