Quotes About Diversity

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.

I just like cars, period. I can find something to like about pretty much any car. I've had as much fun whipping around Italy in a little Mini Cooper as I've had whipping through Miami in a Bentley GT.

My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.

I've given the idea a lot of thought and I believe it is a sound, logical course of action to hire a woman. The woman I hire won't be on the field blowing a whistle. She'll be in charge of academic counseling for the players and will do some recruiting.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.