Quotes About Diversity

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

I haven't really ever seen a big budget Hollywood film with African music. Most of the time, it's just Hollywood's perception of what African music is.

There is still this perception in football about whether people are 'English through and through.' Essentially there is not any such thing without going into a whole discussion on genetics and bloodlines of each player.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

Everyone who comes to the entertainment industry wants to be a film actor. Who wants to be a television actor by choice? I want to change the perception of Indian television as being the poor man's medium.

I do think I can change the perception of the 'Bachelorette.' And not just because of my race.

As a mother, I think it's so important to change the perception of beauty.

My friends have said, 'Wait, you're pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you're interested in science?' I have to just hold my head and go, 'Do you hear yourself?' By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.

It makes me very happy that people's perceptions of what's beautiful and attractive are gradually changing.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people.

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in the U.K. It's so beautiful, perceptive and insightful, giving us so much to think about and changing the way we see the world and the experiences of others.

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

In a perfect world, in my opinion, 'they,' 'them,' and 'theirs' would be the pronouns that everyone would use.