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Quotes About Diversity

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.
~ Lionel Richie
I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.
~ Charles Melton
I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.
~ Edgar Davids
Honolulu is a melting pot.
~ Bruno Mars
I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.
~ Dave Cooper
Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.
~ Mike Colter
I moved to London, and it's a cliche to say that London is a melting pot, but it's true - I didn't stand out anymore.
~ Noma Dumezweni
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.
~ Vir Das
One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.
~ David Cameron
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
~ Bob Greene
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
~ Bobby Jindal
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
~ Eric Holder
As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
~ Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
~ Howard Stringer
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
~ Orlando Bloom
On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?
~ Gurinder Chadha
New York's food scene is truly unique because it is this wonderful melting pot where immigrants from all over the world have brought with them their cuisines and their ingredients.
~ Daniel Humm
My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.
~ Steven Stucky
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
~ J. J. Watt
The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.
~ Gabriella Wilde
Paris was a melting pot.
~ Sonia Rykiel
This is a great country, and it's a melting pot. People shouldn't judge other people by the color of their skin, their church, or the area where they reside.
~ Jesse White
My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell