Quotes About Diversity

Fashion's impact reverberates through our society, which is why it is so important that it celebrates diversity and champions inclusivity.

India is a beautiful country. Any attempt to divide people cannot be good for this country.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

No one can divide the people of India.

In our own country, you can't divide people.

We are a nation divided, but that's what makes us, in a way.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

I've been turned down for a lot of TV because they didn't think there was a place for Divine on television.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

What's funny is funny. It doesn't matter what expense it's at. There are people who don't like that and I understand.

Drag isn't always about expensive rhinestone gowns; it's about what's entertaining.

I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.