Quotes About Diversity

Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.

Obviously I had great hand-eye coordination. I saw I was really different than other players.

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

I am interested in everything, which sounds like a cop out. Having been a magazine writer, I do not have a beat.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

I'm the black sheep in a family of cops. I understand how difficult the job is.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

Obviously, don't copy everything we do.

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

If you have a billion people running a phone in every corner of their lives, and all these third-party apps and all these countries and all these languages, there are going to be issues.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

The best corners can play everywhere.

As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war.