Quotes About Diversity

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

I don't speak Punjabi. My dad runs a beauty salon and is an Elvis fan.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Seeing so much of the same thing suppresses the desire to buy.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action hero gets to do.

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great.

I never saw Black Santa growing up. I would have loved to.

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.

There is no one artform that is going to satisfy all human beings, and there's no one way of talking about difficult stuff that is going to satisfy people, period.

I got an opportunity to play all kinds of women - that has been the satisfying aspect of my career.