Quotes About Diversity

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

I like exploring life and its complexities.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

Race has no place in American life or law.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up

We really become one—we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor—freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

I hoped that reading the novel would give my mother a sense that my life as a queer black feminist is about something more than my choice of partners. It is also about a relationship to time and people and shared space.