Quotes About Diversity

I want to get my degree and that's something I take pride in, especially being a man of color.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

Being different makes you beautiful.

The tax on being different is massive.

I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.

I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality.

I enjoy being different.

I take every season as it being different.

I like being different.

These people I cover, I want to do right by them. Doing right by them doesn't always mean agreeing with me or being happy with me, but it means being fair to them and giving their voice space.

We're all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others' life choices.

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.

We have to show every team, whether it's Estonia, Belarus or Belgium, the same respect.

Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.

I grew up in Belgium and my best friends in school was one African kid and one from Asia.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

It's really wrong to judge someone because of their beliefs.