Quotes About Diversity

I want to see women of African descent shine.

I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

We're all created equal, and we all deserve an equal shot.

People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.

Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

There's not one path for everyone, but everyone deserves a path that's right for them.

I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.

Everybody deserves to be seen and to be heard. Regardless of whether that is your culture, your language, who you love, your ability, or the way you chose to live your life, everybody deserves to be seen and be heard.

Design, art, and science are all a melange.

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

I'm not just a designer; I'm not just a retailer. I'm not just a street style person, whatever that is. I can instead do a little bit of everything.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

My friends are not in the industry - they're young artists or knitwear designers or whatever.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

I have so many friends who are designers of color.

I'm one of those designers who can be inspired by absolutely anything, anywhere in the world.

Designers have always fawned over my skin, especially Tarun Tahiliani. I've definitely felt accepted brown skin and all. But fair girls like Shivani Kapoor were as loved too.

It is always good to keep looking different and desirable.

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.