Quotes About Diversity

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

Fashion has come a long way to embrace different body shapes, ethnicities, even looks. I find it an exciting time culturally for these reasons. Women are really coming into their own.

Who you seen on screen shapes who you are.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.

I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.

We're going to have more women run for office. We can shift what's going on in Congress.

It's important for African-Americans to express themselves, period. We're 400 years behind. We should be able to shine whenever and however we feel.

The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the camera. We raise our children to want to be in front of the camera and shine, and that's on us.

I don't see what's shocking about a man in a dress.

If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.

I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop.

In my family, I'm short.

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term projects, just to give myself the opportunity to go to more places and try more things.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.

There is more to life than show business.

I think it's important to show people, especially young people, that it's okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.

I think it's really important to show people that there's nothing different about us; especially as athletes - we train as hard as the Olympians.

Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.