Quotes About Diversity

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

It was easier to forget, or be dismissive about, transgender issues when there weren't transgender staffers or interns walking the halls of the White House.

I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

Trump seems to think he can win the White House with only the white vote. I believe that the only way to win the White House is with the Latino vote. If the Republican candidate cannot get 33 percent of it, he cannot win the White House.

Football is football, and there are some pretty good players that have come out of the FCS and did well against bigger competition.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That's quite important.

I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.

When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

Kolkata is a place where you can pretty much find everything. From traditional wear to western wear - you name it and you will get it - that too at pocket friendly prices.

I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.

I don't think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.

I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

We celebrate pride every day of the year - whether it's black pride, whether LGBTQIA + pride, whether it's the pride of being a woman, whether it's the pride of being a mother, we should be proud of who we are each and every day.

I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charley Pride could handle all the stuff he went through.