Quotes About Diversity

Jesus created a motley crew, plucking us from every context and inaugurating a piecemeal clan that has only ever functioned with mercy. We should be grabbing hands, throwing our heads back, and laughing that God saved us all, because surely this is the messiest family ever and He loves us anyway. Our shared redemption should keep us grateful and kind, because what other response even makes sense?

I may just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

But the earth is jam-packed with amazing, extraordinary people who color outside the narrow lines society deems noteworthy, and they deserve applause too.

Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents to share with the world, and even though everybody has special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.

Imagine what our world would be life if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colours or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different. Furthermore, idiosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. [...] [W]e should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece.

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different. [...] [I]diosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. Furthermore, we should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

A narrow-minded man can lead one to devalue others, and in the end, to desperately dangerous hates of outsiders, ranging in expression from discrimination against minorities to world conflagrations,' Tolman wrote. The solution? Create broader cognitive maps in the mind that encompass bigger geographical boundaries and a wider social scope, embracing those we might consider others, and in this way encourage empathy and understanding.

The scientists chalked up the flocks' greater successes to the odds that they included birds with varying abilities, experiences, and temperaments: "Large groups succeed because they're more likely to contain a diverse range of individuals," the team writes, "some of whom will be very good at problem-solving.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

Mama says it's just her nature. Some people are flowers, and some are thorns.

Well, I am nothing like perfection." "You're better. You're you.

You promised to show me the world." "The world is what an army wife sees, every facet of it, the beautiful and the ugly. If you're willing to see it with me.

the way people treat shifters can be amusing." "Discrimination is never funny." "You're a righteous woman, Kim. I like that." "How can you just sit there?" "I usually sit when I'm drinking coffee. Or I mean against something. If I may on my back, it goes down the wrong way.

For some people, they may categorize it as gay love. And for me, I simply see it as love. And theres no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in a land torn by war, no truth was more important to remember than that.

A quilt, like a family, doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be inclusive.

This is why I paint," he says. "To get black men into museums.