Quotes About Diversity

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

I am a British-Palestinian who believes in Israel's right to exist.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that they are.

Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.

When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.

I belong to the Bohri community.

I know what it feels like to be on the outside, a place that you don't belong, feeling like you're the only one of your kind.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

I belong to a non-filmy background, that is where my friends are from too.

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

My father belongs to Berhampur and my mother is from Uttar Pradesh.

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.