Quotes About Diversity

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

I'm very into familiar things, popular things. I'm into things that no one seems to know about or be into. I'm trying to draw a line between those two things and make it clear... that it all makes sense to me. That it's not disparate. That it's all one thing inside me.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world through our popular culture.

When I was younger I didn't feel I was represented in popular culture - you couldn't get a brown doll in the shops and you didn't see many brown people on TV.

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

Of course, no single entertainment device can enjoy eternal popularity.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge those who want to label London's global attraction a flaw rather than a strength.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party.

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.