Quotes About Diversity

Normally you hear about Southeast London, and you hear about all the stuff that goes on down there, all the negative things, and the tabloids kind of stay away from all the positive things that happen that I see every day, which kind of outshines the negative.

I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Unconventionality is no longer a taboo. It is being applauded and celebrated by both the classes and the masses.

You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

I played every position, from right tackle to quarterback and everything in between.

While we have come a long way, we must go further if we are to ensure greater diversity and truly modern police forces that reflect the communities they serve and provide police officers able to tackle not only traditional crime but also the changing face of crime.

Conservatives believe in individual choice for all parents and pupils, regardless of social or economic background, and our Better School Passport would tackle these problems head on by encouraging innovation to create new schools on one hand, while giving real choice and diversity to parents on the other.

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.

'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.

It is important to tackle racial discrimination. But these matters must be handled sensitively.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.

The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' 'taco,' or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.

They're completely American. When I served my son falafel in a pita the other day, he said, 'Daddy, this taco is very good.'