Quotes About Diversity

We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling.

That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education.

The more exposure any big comic with a disability gets will open more doors for the rest of us and help change people's attitudes.

I didn't have the exposure. I didn't see gay people or hear about them. My family didn't know any. It wasn't something I thought was reality.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

You expressed yourself by looking different from other people. We even looked different from each other. But among the Exis, there was a close group of us, Klaus Voormann, Jurgen Wollmer and me. Klaus and I always wore black.

I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.

Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though they were from the same environment.

I've never had a problem with people expressing themselves. It's one thing great about our country.

I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.

My lyrics are about same-sex relationships, because that's who I am. It was important to me that I felt comfortable expressing myself.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and you can't stop anyone from expressing their thoughts.

Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

I came out in my career talking about being sensual and being expressive. Some people can't really handle it, and that's fine. It's not for everybody. If you're one of those that can't handle it, stay up under the rock. You do that.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

I've always made the case that a baseball locker room is simply an extension of society. Every type of person you have in your large office environment is also represented in an MLB clubhouse.

I cut off my curls and got hair extensions because I felt they made me look more acceptable - more white. I just wasn't very comfortable being a mixed-race woman.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.