Quotes About Diversity

My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

I love myself the way I am, but people will always message me about other people with vitiligo who cover their skin. 'Winnie Harlow, you need to tell them that they need to love themselves the way they are and stop covering their skin!' No! If that's what makes them comfortable and what makes them happy, let them be.

One of the unique things about covering politics in America is that I've gotten to see a lot of corners of this country that I never would've gotten to see. It turns out that there are a lot of really beautiful places in corners of America you wouldn't necessarily expect.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s, and I'm working on the '10s.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

I mean, casting gender non-conforming people in campaigns and editorials and on covers of magazines is a risk for any business because there's going to be controversy, but I think they need to take the risk and believe they're moving in the right direction.

I'm a cowboy and an Indian.

A lot of my family going back were cowboys and barrel racers, and I'd say I'm 50 percent high fashion and 50 percent cowgirl.

Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

My talent is universal, and acting is a craft that can be used anywhere, unless ethnicity comes into play, and then, looks matter.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.

God of War' was a 40-60 person team. It was a lot of very different, very passionate, very crazy people.

I don't think I will ever understand Bollywood. And I'm happy about that because it is a big, crazy, world. It's too complicated and chaotic to understand.

Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible.

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

What All Elite Wrestling does is it just creates more opportunities for women.