Quotes About Diversity

I feel like it's important for young African-American girls - and all people - to read books that tell our stories and watch movies that tell our stories and do the research on our own, too, because sometimes that's not being told, and we're not being seen and shown.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.

It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.

When fans say 'Bala,' that's cultural awareness to me. I hope I've helped open up their world a little.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

What we do is not easy. And if someone like Ronda Rousey wants to come and be a part of what we do, and that's her passion? That's awesome.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

It's awesome to be part of a gay family.

America's an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

In our business, you never really know who you're going to get and who you're going to work with. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's awful, and you gotta do what you gotta do.

I think every actor can agree that when you've been playing a certain character for awhile - no matter what that role is - it's always attractive to try something that's different.

I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary.

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

No two births are the same and no two babies are the same, as I found out.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.

I think we need a Muslim 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette.' I think that's what would be the great equalizer, and that would change everything.

I think the beauty of the concept of 'The Bachelor' is that it will never be the same thing twice. I think it will be a very different show with me.

When you're putting out something that is very whitewashed and doesn't have any type of color in it and you're not trying to be effective and change that... I think that they have to at this point, give us a black Bachelor for season 25. I don't know how you don't.

My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

I'm of Arab background.