Quotes About Diversity

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

Nadie es todo el mundo, ni nadie es repetido. Parecido, puede ser. Repetido, no. Y eso es la vida: encontrar a los parecidos y esquivar a los repetidos. Lo demás llega o no, aparece o no, duele o no

Además, ¿cuál era mi idioma verdadero? Sabía el alemán, por mi padre. Con Ruth hablaba el inglés, idioma de mis estudios secundarios; con Mouche, a menudo el francés; el español de mi Epítome de Gramática-Estos, Fabio…- con Rosario. Pero este último idioma era también el de las Vidas de Santos, empastadas en terciopelo morado, que tanto me había leído mi Madre: Santa Rosa de Lima, Rosario.

A world of houses where Californian, the Gothic or Moorish, dwarf Parthenons, Greek temples with lights and venetian blinds mixed with Renaissance villas.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz.

What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.

Gay isn't wrong or right. It just is. What's wrong is hating yourself because of it. You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

No, Manuel said firmly. Gay isn't wrong or right. It just is.

If you think the sea is blue and I think it's green, why try to convince you?

the Spaniards think, and the French think up.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psychotics, epileptics, schizophrenics, self-harmers, beggars, buskers, car thieves, sherry pushers, ciderheads, just-released-that-morning convicts, ex-army, ex-married-men-with-young-children-who'd-discovered-their-wife-in-bed-with-two-members-of-the-university-rowing-team-at-the-same-time.

Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development which presaged the flattening effects of globalisation; the spreading, under a cheerful banner, of a sameness that threatened to weaken and destroy all sense of place.

I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people.

We are human and vulnerable, whatever our individual situation: The moon looks on them all The Healers and the brilliant talkers The eccentrics and the silent walkers The dumpy and the tall.

So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what it was all about, but Mma Ramotwe had yet to meet such a man. Maybe they existed elsewhere - in France, perhaps - but they did not seem to be much in evidence in Botswana.

There are so many people who would love to be able to live in peace, but there are so many others who do not want to let them. Mr.

She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did not.

We were all people—men and women—and you could never say that one group of people was less important than another.