Quotes About Diversity

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

England's very different. I was at Barcelona for 10 years, and it's another world.

At Barcelona, all men's and women's teams have the same style and philosophy.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

Language should not be a barrier for an actor; I want the world to see my work and not limit it to Hindi-speaking audiences.

When you come to the South industry, they know that you don't know the language but it never becomes a barrier.

Language is no longer a barrier for artistes.

Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

I grew up on army bases all over the world, but I'm from Alabama.

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

Basketball is basketball.

I like women's basketball.

Balling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I'm used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at all for me.