Quotes About Diversity

Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they don't quite fit in a box or convention of what people expect of you or what you should be telling.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

The conventional idea of beauty is so boring.

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'

I encourage people to have those tough conversations just to educate yourself on what goes on and how we can create equality in the world and grow together as one.

These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

Whenever I go to Odisha, I make it a point to converse in Odia.

New York is a place where people have strong convictions.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's pretty cool.

I think it's a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn't matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them. I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

That's the cool thing about how my career has been - you never know where I'm showing up next.

Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about it is.

I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.