Quotes About Diversity

I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

It's not always about money, we got Hull promoted with a collection of loans and waifs and strays.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.

WWE has always been committed to promoting wrestling talent in India.

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

By being present and being true, I believe that, in my own way, I am promoting diversity.

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees us.

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

My last name is difficult to pronounce. It's Toussant.

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

I am proof that, as Americans, we can embrace our differences.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I am no glamorous prop waiting to be presented as a showpiece in a film. Filmmakers have to look beyond that.

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role in a film that does not feature a big actor.

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.

If anything, who I am and my background helped propel me and helped me stand out.

I have grown fond of the food which is made in Barkas, and I try to go there at least once a week. Some of the food joints don't even have a proper name, but it's so different compared to rest of the places in Hyderabad.

The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.