Quotes About Diversity

I was working as a print journalist before I gave broadcasting a go, and spent years behind the camera in production while building up on-screen credits, but I know so many others with totally different experiences.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

What's so great about my business is that every day is different than the day prior.

Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.

Nothing is more infuriating to me than the way the media and political parties conflate Hispanic-Americans and illegal immigrants. We are not one and the same, and our interests and priorities are often very different.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

My main priorities were to fight for Britain. Not a lot of Asians get selected for this country at anything, and it's a great achievement.

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

I didn't necessarily grow up with country being my first priority as a music listener. I grew up listening to classic rock and Christian music.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.

There is no one-size-fits-all process. It differs from character to character and priority to priority. Every project has a different priority, and you have to be agile enough physically as well as mentally to shift from one character to another. I think I am fairly decent in that.

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

When you work in film sets, when you're working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority.

My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done before.

And so it became a priority for me to make sure that all Asian Canadians or Asian Americans or wherever you are, Asian Australians, felt like they belonged.

My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

A major step towards the universalist approach would be to dismantle the countless diversity policies that encourage people to see everything through the prism of racial difference.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.