Quotes About Diversity

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

I have been watching male programming all my life. And I'm completely interested in it. Like, I love 'Breaking Bad' and I like 'Game of Thrones.'

I definitely think there needs to be more of a focus and movement on getting coding taught in schools. There's really only so much after-school programs like Black Girls Code can do to really drive that change. And those classes shouldn't only take place in high school. We should make sure that we teach kids about coding at an early age.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

I love that we've chipped away at the celluloid closet and have wonderful programs that feature gay and lesbian characters in really rich, fully developed ways.

When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.

In a way, it almost feels like your career starts again when you get to the States, because a lot of the programs that we do in Canada are not even shown here.

If you're in the rural South, you don't get Korean TV, unless you can find a Korean grocery guy who has been taping Korean programs and then offering them.

Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.

Everybody wants the nation to progress and harmony between all communities. This has happened under the leadership of Modi ji and it will go on.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

I understand and appreciate and respect that any time a barrier is broken or history is made, people want to celebrate it and mark it as progress.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Binaries definitely keep us from progressing. Imagine if we didn't have political parties and just had people who worked together to improve the life quality of everyone.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

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