Quotes About Diversity

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

I actually had a lot of very smart peers.

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

I come from Oregon, which is this super-white state, so I didn't really have a lot of Asian friends in high school and college. And my background's in comedy, and your friends are just your peers in comedy, which is a whole mix of people.

It's great to go to work and your boss is a black man, one of your peers, you know?

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.

People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

Any one of Messi, Neymar, Xavi, or Suarez can take penalties; it doesn't matter.

It's always good to have more than one player who can take free-kicks or penalties.

There were boys in my class who would stick pencils in my curls, and say 'oh it's like a cushion' and laugh at me. Even my body type was very different from the other girls in my school. So I grew up thinking that I don't look good enough.

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

Gay people are made and not born.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

I am not bothered what people say. You have always different opinions.

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

Only the French people say French food is the finest cuisine in the world. If you ask anyone else, they will tell you the best food in the world is Italian.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.