Quotes About Diversity

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport.

Anyone who's gotten their passport in America will tell you, when you get it, it still says what country you were born in. So I remember getting my American passport. I was like, 'Woo-hoo! I'm going to travel.' And I opened it up. It said, 'Born in Iran.' I'm like, 'Oh, come on, man!'

For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

There have been people who said I was a Pat Riley clone. But I don't think that's true. While I did learn a lot from him, I could never be him. I mean, we even dress so differently.

Everyone has a different path and journey.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

Everybody makes his path differently.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

Watching my dad go through all of the different career paths in the entertainment industry that he has, has absolutely influenced me.

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.