Quotes About Diversity

In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I'd chosen to write my first novel that way.

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere.

People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

It's important to not have my sexuality define me.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.

Just as basketball doesn't define who I am, neither does being gay.

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

For me, a place is defined by the kind of people inhabiting it.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.

A film is a film, and shouldn't be defined by language.

Alabama is defined by its people. It's that simple.

What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid is different than for another kid.

The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.